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

A study published in PNAS Nexus shows that there are almost twice as many risky days for large human-caused fires in the ...

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 ...

Yet, the reality is that roughly 90% of people who experience a lightning strike survive the ordeal. The survival goes to show that the body has ways to deflect potentially lethal outcomes.

Contrary to popular belief, lightning strikes aren’t always a death sentence. In fact, about 90 percent of people in the US who are struck actually survive. Still, victims rarely walk away ...

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.

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 ...

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.