One of the more difficult shots to master in photography is capturing lightning manually, even if your reaction time is exceptional. It also involves a fair bit of luck, even for professional snappers ...

A Tokyo-based tech giant claims to have created the first drone in the world to induce and guide lightning strikes. Like Zeus on his winged chariot, or – more realistically – a flying lightning rod, ...

Photographers looking to take photographs of lightning and storms may be interested in a new camera adapter in the form of the FLEX Bolt specifically designed to help you capture those perfect ...

Lightning is one of the most familiar spectacles in the sky, yet the exact spark that starts a bolt has remained stubbornly out of reach. Now a physicist has managed to trap a microscopic particle and ...

Lightning has fascinated its observers since the beginning of human history. Those who painted the Lascaux cave walls in France approximately 20,000 years ago are believed to have represented it in ...

Lightning is one of nature’s most intense and unpredictable forces, but thankfully, we have got technology to help us stay ahead of the storm. Lightning detectors are designed to pick up the ...

Question: Does an automated surface observation system (ASOS) have a built-in lightning detection system? Without an observer, how does it know to add a thunderstorm (TS), thunderstorms in the ...

The crack of lightning has always seemed straightforward — clouds build up electric charge, and eventually, it snaps. But the chain of events that lights the sky has remained an atmospheric puzzle for ...