Join us on Wednesday, March 31 at noon Pacific for the Physics of Lightning Hack Chat with Greg Leyh! Of all the things that were around to terrify our ancestors, lightning must have been right up ...

Last year marked the 270th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod — but it’s more than a relic of history. The Franklin rod remains in use today because the simple design exploits some ...

This video was a two month journey digging into the physics of sandstorms, and how particle collisions create electric charge ...

A warmer planet with rising pollution, population density and urbanization is intensifying human exposure to lightning hazards, warn scientists. Evidence points to a concentration of lightning strikes ...

While the point of science fiction is not necessarily to reflect science fact — or even science possibility — it’s sometimes worth asking what the world would be like if science fiction was science ...

What steps can be taken to mitigate lightning strikes on future aircraft designs? This is what a recent study published in IEEE Access hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated new ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. After nearly 100 years of speculating that thunderstorms could trigger a nuclear reaction in the atmosphere, scientists ...

A calculation so complex that it takes twenty years to complete on a powerful desktop computer can now be done in one hour on a regular laptop. Physicist Andreas Ekström at Chalmers University of ...

The Florida Institute of Technology released videos on May 24 showing lightning during storms on May 19 and May 20 about six miles from the Florida Institute of Technology campus in Melbourne, Florida ...

In the same spirit as Benjamin Franklin and his famous kite experiments, Joseph Dwyer is a scientist willing to brave booming thunderstorms to understand more about lightning. In this exclusive ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have finally succeeded in producing a strange phenomenon ...