Many theories on ball lightning have been put forward over the years but none can explain all of the characteristics observed. “A good theory should also be able to account for the generation of the ...

Ball lightning is a rare and little understood atmospheric phenomenon. An Alberta couple may have just caught the best ...

The work may not only help us to understand ball lightning but could even lead to practical applications that make use of these artificial balls (Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 045002). Lightning ball Ball ...

Scientists have created, for the first time a three-dimensional skyrmion in a quantum gas. The skyrmion was predicted theoretically over 40 years ago, but only now has it been observed experimentally.

And “ball lightning” that doesn’t drift may be Saint Elmo’s fire – a glowing plasma of excited electrons generated around the tops of pointed objects, such as a steeple or a ship’s mast.

Back in 1996, a paper published in Nature proposed that ball lightning might be the result of the magnetic fields around the plasma of a lightning bolt curling into a knot and trapping it within ...

There is also ball lightning. "Ball lighting is like a small ball of plasma that would form and people would see the little orbs," said Meteorologist Brad Montgomery.

HOMEMADE. Researchers made this glowing blob, about 6 centimeters across, which may resemble the elusive lightning balls that occur in nature. To see a video clip of the fireball being formed ...