Towards the end of the Second World War, US President Harry Truman thought to speed up Japan ’s surrender by dropping two ...

Greg Foot investigates whether a human being can survive when struck by lightning. He uses a Tesla coil to produce very high voltages of static electricity that simulate lightning strikes.

Experts have long thought that humans weren’t able to survive in extremely arid climates, and would have retreated to higher ...

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 strikes were unleashed during a severe thunderstorm in Washington before four people were struck near ... Her doctors called it a miracle that she survived the millions of volts of ...

Across the west, from 1979–2020, about 30 days a year were sufficiently hot and dry for lightning-ignited large fires, while about 58 days a year were sufficiently hot and dry for human-ignited ...

It is a common belief that lightning strikes are a death sentence. But that is not entirely true. About 90% of the people in the US, who were struck, survived. However, the victims rarely walked ...