Despite increasing insurance requirements for surge protection devices, South African policyholders may not be adequately ...

Already this spring, two in the U.S. have been struck and killed by lightning, both while fishing from a boat.

Japanese researchers have successfully triggered and guided lightning using specially made and protected drones, marking a ...

Lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun and can reach temperatures around 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit. COLUMBIA, S.C. — ...

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

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

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

Knowing what to do during a thunderstorm is crucial for protecting your life and property, but many people don’t realize that ...

Can a vehicle keep rolling after a direct lightning strike? Possibly, but more likely it will be damaged. “The lightning strike disabled the vehicles electrical system, exploded the rear bumper and ...

An author of a recent study about lightning's effect on trees in Panamanian forests says his team has gotten a large, ...

I think the first tree we saw that survived a direct lightning strike was a Dipteryx oleifera in 2015, 2016. That tree survived, [but] the [parasitic] woody vines, lianas, in its crown died ...