Lightning is the most beautiful and dramatic demonstration of electricity in nature, yet its origin has long eluded a ...

Now, a new study has used computer models to reveal that lightning strikes as the result of a powerful chain reaction that ...

Lightning produces 10 times more electricity than flows on high-tension wires. It also produces heat energy hotter than the surface of the sun, and sound energy (thunder) that can travel 25 miles.

Lightning produces 10 times more electricity than flows on high-tension wires. It also produces heat energy hotter than the surface of the sun, and sound energy (thunder) that can travel 25 miles.

The team of Pasek and Hurst is the first to investigate the energy in lightning strikes by using geology “after-the-fact” research, rather than measuring energy during a strike.

This enables the waves, and the energy they carry, to reach distances up to 20,000 kilometres above the planet’s surface. That means they can travel deep into the magnetosphere, the region of ...

As for harvesting lightning today, it looks like it’s the same story: no matter how attractive it may seem at first, large-scale energy harvesting doesn’t come easy, and there is no “free lunch” out ...

A Penn State-led research team has unraveled the long-standing mystery of how lightning begins inside thunderclouds. Their ...

As anyone who's ever seen a bolt of lightning knows, the air around us can be filled with an astonishing amount of energy. A new study shows a way to harvest this power using a perforated nanofilm ...

A group of scientists say they successfully steered bolts of lightning using laser technology during a storm in Switzerland, demonstrating a potential new method to protect infrastructure from ligh… ...