The past few weeks have been marked by a number of thunderstorms. For millennia the cause of storms, especially the thunder clap and ...

Electricity's story is one of curiosity and innovation. Ancient Greeks noted static electricity. Baghdad Battery hints at early energy use. Gilbert named 'electricus'. Franklin linked lightning to ...

AC and DC power differ in direction, usage, and efficiency. Learn the basics of how alternating and direct current work and ...

A new study shows lightning begins with cosmic rays from space, uncovering how storms create the energy behind Earth’s most ...

Day six of the AAU Junior Olympics is in full done, see which athletes won their races and new records that that were set on Friday, August 1.

Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, was quietly transferred from a federal prison in Florida to a ...

Tidal kites have been developed that can fly in undersea currents with blades tethered in the shape of an eight. This proves ...

Now, a new study has used computer models to reveal that lightning strikes as the result of a powerful chain reaction that ...

At the mouth of the Catatumbo River, an electrical storm unlike any other on Earth takes place for around half of the year.

Lightning, which can heat the atmosphere to five times the temperature of the surface of the sun, is the result of a powerful ...