New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...

Archaeologists working in eastern England say they have uncovered the earliest known evidence of humans deliberately making ...

Our eyes deceive us when lightning strikes like a giant spark cracking the sky in two. That giant spark is only as big around as a golf ball. Like everything else in nature, it happens for a reason.

Florida, the lightning capital of the U.S., sees more lightning deaths and injuries than any other state. Safety experts and survivors stress that more can be done to protect residents, tourists and ...

Those long hours turned him into an unlikely figure in American folklore because he survived something few people encounter more than once. Lightning struck him seven separate times across 35 years, ...

The findings push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly 350,000 years. Until now, the oldest confirmed evidence had come from Neanderthal sites (northern France) dating to ...

Zimbabwe is one of the most lightning-struck places on Earth, and a mix of extreme weather and deep-rooted superstition is ...

Dipteryx oleifera trees not only survive lightning strikes, they grow taller, lose rivals, and reproduce more successfully.