Our eyes deceive us when lightning strikes like a giant spark cracking the sky in two. That giant spark is only as big around as a golf ball. Like everything else in nature, it happens for a reason.

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 ...

Harvard physicist Daniel Davis had a spark of brilliance when he built his own lightning machine — and it sings. An educator, fulminologist and craftsman by trade, Davis has been fascinated by ...

All it takes is a directional lightning detector, a PC, and an Internet connection. Then you can contribute to a sensor net showing real-time lightning strikes through Blitzortung.org. The focus of ...

Within four months of beginning production, BossCap has converted 150 Ford F-150 Lightnings from left to right-hand drive in order to meet the growing need of businesses and their environmental and ...

An overlooked mechanism lets energy from lightning reach the highest layers of the atmosphere, where it could threaten the safety of satellites and astronauts. When lightning occurs, the energy it ...