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 ...

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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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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 ...

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 ...

These videos of rocket-triggered lightning strikes showcase the electrostatic phenomena vaporizing copper wire into lightsaber-esque plasma channels. Lightning never fails to put on a sublime show, ...

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 ...