Despite modern technology, some phenomena remain almost impossible to prove—like ball lightning. This video dives into the ...

Ball lightning is a mysterious phenomena that's been seen since the beginning of recorded history, but it's so rare most people put it in the category of folklore or pseudoscience. 'The Cosby Show ...

In the wake of one of the flashes came the globular lightning, apparently floating slowly downwards. Two or three brilliant globular structures of the kind known as ball lightning appeared to ...

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This rare form of lightning may represent a stable configuration of a plasma of charged particles. If it does, it may help to solve the problem of confining a plasma within a thermonuclear reactor ...