Detecting radiation is a fundamental necessity for national security, but doing so effectively and at a distance is a tall ...

IN a paper which has recently attracted a considerable amount of attention, Kapitza 1 has proposed a standing electromagnetic wave description of ball lightning. His paper presents a good ...

This rare form of lightning may represent a stable configuration of a plasma of charged particles. If it does, it may help to solve the problem of confining a plasma within a thermonuclear reactor ...

There’s also fork lightning which flows between a cloud and the ground. And even ball lightning. When lightning happens, it heats the air to around 10,000 °C. As the air heats so quickly it ...