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Is it any wonder ancient people thought lightning came from the gods? Even today, a close lightning strike feels like a terrifying brush with the supernatural.

You might think you’d be safe from lightning if a storm is far away. You’d be wrong.

A defibrillator delivers up to 1,000 volts. An electric chair, about 2,000. A lightning bolt: 100 million. But because the current races through the body in milliseconds, it often doesn't kill. What ...

The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a ...

Why Lightning Happens — And Why It’s So Dangerous. Meteorologist Matt Bullock explains.

Over the last 30 years, lightning has killed an average of 51 people per year. Many more strikes result in permanent injury or disability.

Lightning researchers expect lightning could become more frequent as temperatures rise. Photo by Rick Lipscomb, courtesy NOAA. The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice.

Lightning strikes are always a serious threat, no matter what season it is. For the last year, lightning strikes in the US have reached an 8-year-high, according to Vaisala Xweather. Xweather operates ...

A bolt of lightning hit One World Trade Center, the tallest skyscraper in the US, in the early hours of Thursday, March 12, ...