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A bolt of lightning lasts only a fraction of a second, yet the narrow channel of air it passes through reaches roughly 50,000 ...

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 ...

Studying lightning is as hard as you might expect. One promising technique to study the ephemeral surges is to measure the radio waves generated by a lightning event using an array of antennas. This ...

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 ...

A group of scientists said they were able to guide lightning bolts using laser technology for the first time. In new work published in the journal Nature Photonics, international researchers said ...

Ball lightning - a slow-moving ball of light that is occasionally seen at ground level during thunderstorms - has puzzled scientists for centuries. There have also been reports of ball lightning in ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Last Friday, Norway’s Hardangervidda mountain plateau looked like what would happen if Miguel Sapochnik directed a holiday TV special. More than 300 reindeer corpses were found piled up and strewn ...