Imagine a world without the glow of your screen, the hum of your fridge, or the instant communication across continents.

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and ...

A tiny worm that leaps high into the air—up to 25 times its body length—to attach to flying insects uses static electricity ...

Most people probably have an intuition that lightning is big, but few people grasp the true potential scope that a single ...

Flashes of microlightning between microscopic bubbles of methane in water may ignite the eerie blue flames of will-o’-the ...

Thunder Basin High School hasn't even welcomed back a class for its 10-year reunion yet. But one of the state's newest high ...

Scientists solved the mystery of will-o'-the-wisps by discovering that methane bubbles in marshes create lightning sparks ...

Chemists have discovered tiny zaps of electricity moving between “swamp-gas” bubbles. Could they ignite methane gas to glow as dancing blue flames?

Mysterious flashes of light seen in swamps and bogs could be caused by burning methane or other gases, ignited by sparks that ...

Thomas Cooper, 5, of Royal Oak died in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber fire Jan. 31 at the Oxford Center in Troy. The CEO of the Oxford Center and three workers are criminally charged in Thomas' death.

Troy — Immediately before fire erupted in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber where 5-year-old Thomas Cooper was receiving treatment in late January, the boy's knee may have touched the mattress, possibly ...