HOLLAND, Mich. — Looking for a fun activity to do at home with your kids? This science experiment is fun for all times of the year, but it's a great way to teach summer safety outdoors! Weather ...

In a small lab at Penn State University, lightning may be happening on a scale smaller than a deck of cards. Victor Pasko, a professor of electrical engineering, and his team have shown that under ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Microlightning” exchanges among water droplets could have sparked the building blocks of life on ancient Earth, new research ...

Physicists have long known how lightning ends, in a blinding discharge that can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun, but the precise trigger that starts a bolt inside a cloud has remained ...

Armed with a slew of new instruments, physicists are closing in on one of nature’s oldest mysteries — and finding that storm ...

Researchers at Stony Brook University may have captured lightning in a bottle — or at least explained one of the theories of how it is created. Working with researchers in Spain and China, Stony Brook ...

Benjamin Franklin is credited with inventing the lightning rod, and for some 270 years it has remained the main tool for protecting buildings from destructive and potentially deadly thunderbolts. But ...

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SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - This episode is about lightning. We will use a balloon and a CFL lightbulb to explore static electricity. Static electricity is the movement of electrons between two objects, just ...

Ball lightning has mystified scientists and witnesses for centuries, appearing as glowing orbs during thunderstorms that seem to defy physics. While thousands of people report seeing these luminous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Penn State scientists demonstrate that lightning-like electrical discharges can occur inside solid materials, not just in storm ...