Lightning strikes in the atmosphere can trigger a rain of high-powered “killer electrons” in low-Earth orbit that form ...

Copper makes the best lightning conductor—there is no fear of having it too thick: Faraday says, "the solid section is the grand object." It has hitherto been held by many to be a scientific ...

Bhubaneswar: Govt agencies in India currently rely on conventional models to forecast lightning events. However, a new ...

The exact mechanism that starts a lightning strike is still not well understood. Yet it happens 45 times per second somewhere on the planet. While we may not gain a deeper scientific appreciation ...

Thunderstorms and working outdoors are bad companions. As it is not possible to predict when and where the next lightning ...

Researchers from USTC have uncovered how convection intensity drives corona discharges at thunderstorm cloud tops. A research team from the (USTC), led by Professors Jiuhou Lei and Baoyou Zhu, along ...

THIS communication records the observation of ball lightning in unusual circumstances. I was seated near the front of the passenger cabin of an all-metal airliner (Eastern Airlines Flight EA 539 ...