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 ...

Discover how does lightning begin and the mysteries behind its initiation and travel in this deep dive into lightning research. Every day on this planet, roughly 4 to 8 million bolts of electricity ...

Lightning strikes are a major trigger for wildfires, including the record-breaking blazes that devastated Australia, California and other regions this year. An international research team has now ...

In He Built a Lightning Gun, the creator demonstrates an incredible feat of engineering by building a device that generates lightning on demand. Dr. Ben Miles, a nuclear engineer, reacts to the ...

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 ...

Basic research in nuclear physics also provides essential input to astrophysics, atomic physics, and particle physics. Opening doors to completely new possibilities "I am incredibly excited to be able ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have finally succeeded in producing a strange phenomenon they've been hunting for more than 50 years now. Called a Shankar skyrmion, it's a knot of matter looped together by twisted ...