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 ...

Scientists have found a competitor to the lightning rod — one of the most tried and true methods of controlling where lightning strikes. The new method is far more expensive, but it allowed scientists ...

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Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. A group of scientists have created a high-power laser beam that they claim lightning will follow for a period of time. Physicists have published a new ...

Picture this: You're stuck in traffic on a summer afternoon, checking the weather app on your phone as dark storm clouds roll in. You might think about power outages or possible flooding, but you ...

GRAND RAPIDS — Thunderstorms can be dangerous but also really cool to watch the lightning light up the sky. But how does lightning happen? Today's experiment we are going to create a lightning spark ...

Lightning's role in making nitrogen available for life on Earth may have been relatively short-lived, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet ...