On a stormy day, engineers at Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) launched a small aircraft into the ...

In a world first, Japanese researchers flew a lightning-proof drone in a thunderstorm, using it to induce and direct natural ...

DEADLY lightning could soon be a worry of the past thanks to a new power-hungry drone that may generate free electricity in ...

About 1.4 billion lightning strikes occur around the world each year — if we could harness them, it would meet roughly 1.5 ...

Though being struck by lightning is usually bad, the tropical tree Dipteryx oleifera benefits. A strike kills other nearby trees and parasitic vines.

Japan’s NTT develops drones that can trigger and guide lightning, aiming to protect cities and study storm behavior.

Japanese tech conglomerate NTT has created a drone that triggers lightning, is then struck by a heavenly bolt it instigated, ...

With millions of lightning strikes recorded each year in the United States, protection should be a priority. However, is your car a safe potential safe shelter?

You might have noticed the metal rods that airplanes have on their wings, but do the pieces have a name? What are they for ...

The four-letter word rang out in unison as the clock wound down and Green sprawled out on his seat on the Warriors’ bench. It ...

kind of like little lightning rods. The electricity travels through the static wicks, across the isolated grounding system, and back out the other end into the air, where it can safely dissipate ...