First, let’s talk about lightning. Lightning is a massive electrical charge created by imbalances between storm clouds and ...

When penetrating particles from cosmic rays move through the atmosphere—in this case through electrically loaded clouds—they are ionising the air, making conducting paths for the lightning.

BENGALURU: In light of increasing instances death due to lightning strikes, governments are becoming more and more concerned.

Recent radio observations reveal a new mode of initial lightning development in the form of continuous initial breakdown burst of several kilometers in length at high altitudes within thunderstorms.

A FINNAIR FLIGHT from Helsinki to Budapest was struck by lightning shortly after take-off on Thursday evening, forcing the ...

Here’s an interesting project to plot every lightning strike on Earth. Blitzortung is a project that uses many extremely low-cost sensor boards packed with an amplifier, microcontroller ...

Lightning has fascinated and excited humans for as long as they have watched the skies. Although meteorologists understand the cloud conditions necessary to produce it, lightning cannot be forecasted.

Lightning AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) development platform, has announced a $50m equity investment aimed at enhancing ...

The Irish lightning strike caused downtime for many Amazon and Microsoft customers using the two cloud colossuses cloud computing services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and ...