They say that one of the safest places to be during a thunderstorm is inside a car. Apparently, the car's metallic shell acts as a faraday cage to direct the electricity around you, keeping you safe ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Several inches of rain and thousands of lightning strikes poured across the Brazos Valley on the evening of April 20th. While most of those strikes occurred without causing any ...

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, ...

About 40 million lightning strikes hit the ground in the U.S. each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While lightning lasts for less than a second and is only about as ...