So far in this series, we’ve talked about man-made byproducts — Fordite, which is built-up layers of cured car enamel, and Trinitite, which was created during the first nuclear bomb test. A lovely ...

FARGO — If you’ve ever walked on a beach or sand dunes, whether that be in lakes country, the Great Lakes or an ocean coast, you may have walked over what some call “fossilized lightning”. ”Its what ...

A: Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity that is five times hotter than the surface of the sun. When lightning strikes the ground, it is hot enough to fuse silica sand and clay together ...

Scientists have found a very rare mineral, which they call a dodecagonal quasicrystal, which probably formed when lightning struck near a fallen power line in a sandy region of the United States. The ...