Lightning is a serious menace to electrical apparatus. Temperamentally it is unsuited to laboratory experimentation. One cannot lasso the lightning and cage it in a condenser for study at leisure. But ...

Chronic curiosity led Benjamin Franklin to fly a kite into a thunderstorm-he got a mild shock and proof that lightning is electrical. A year later, a Russian professor tried the experiment and was ...

A study published in the journal Earth's Future offers detailed projections of lightning across the Western U.S. for the mid-21st century. The largest change in lightning is expected in parts of Idaho ...