TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A professor at the University of South Florida discovered something never-before-seen on Earth after analyzing a dirt sample that was struck by lightning. The phosphorus material, ...

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. — It's not something that happens every day when a person finds an item never seen on Earth before, but a geoscientist with the University of South Florida did exactly that. In a ...

It sounds like a superhero's origin story: scientists have discovered a new type of material created after lightning struck a tree. This particular form of crystalline phosphorus has never been seen ...

During a summer thunderstorm in 2012, lightning struck a tree in New Port Richey, Florida. The strike released its energy into the tree and the soil and sand around it, creating fulgurite, also known ...

A University of South Florida professor discovered that lightning that struck a tree in a New Port Richey area created a new phosphorus material. It was discovered in a rock, the first time in solid ...

The New Port Richey fulgurite images and microscopy. a Glassy tubes that consist of a glassy melt surrounding an internal void, in turn surrounded by a crust consisting of cemented sand grains. The ...

TAMPA, Fla. (April 11, 2023) – After lightning struck a tree in a New Port Richey neighborhood, a University of South Florida professor discovered the strike led to the formation of a new phosphorus ...

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - A Florida professor says the discovery of fossilized lightning led to the formation of a new material that's never before discovered until now. "We have never seen this ...

In a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment, a team of researchers examine the potential for a new phosphorus material that was allegedly created from a lightning strike in New ...

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. — It's not something that happens every day when a person finds an item never seen on Earth before, but a geoscientist with the University of South Florida did exactly that. In a ...