Join us on Wednesday, March 31 at noon Pacific for the Physics of Lightning Hack Chat with Greg Leyh! Of all the things that were around to terrify our ancestors, lightning must have been right up ...

I'm taking questions from the Answerphiles on Patreon. From questions about privacy to quantum physics to cosmology to the Antarctic Thwaites glacier that could doom us all, here's the quick and dirty ...

As a meteorologist, I study lightning and its impacts around the world. A few factors come together to make the situation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau so dangerous. People hunt for this fungus ...

Lightning and thunder might be stunning phenomena that fill the sky with light and sound, but they’re also products of ...

Lightning obeys the laws of physics just like anything else, though, and with a little bit of technology some of its mysteries can be unraveled. For one, it only takes a small radio receiver to ...

Greg Foot investigates whether a human being can survive when struck by lightning. He uses a Tesla coil to produce very high voltages of static electricity that simulate lightning strikes.