Lightning travels at speeds of up to 200 million miles per hour. It comes, quite literally, in a flash, and often disappears before you can reach for your camera. That makes it hard to photograph ...

To trigger lightning, you need a metre-long rocket, a spool of copper wire 700m long and an electric field meter to measure atmospheric electricity at ground level.

The sixth annual Lightning Bolt Drawing World Championships will be held this weekend at The Racecourse in Northampton. Participants are given a single piece of white chalk and assigned a number ...

A company is creating its own lightning bolts to test equipment efficiency as strikes become more common due to climate ...

How to Trigger a Bolt of Lightning. To study otherwise unpredictable thunder and lightning, SwRI scientists launch small rockets trailing grounded copper wire into thunderclouds in Florida.

According to the National Weather Service, a bolt from the blue is a cloud to ground lightning strike which appears to come ...

If you draw lightning bolts like crooked zigzags, then you're doing it wrong — but at least you're in good company. Artists have drawn lightning incorrectly for hundreds of years, a new study ...

Now that two games are in the books, the Bolts will have a day to rest up on Sunday before wrapping up the Showcase with a 1 p.m. contest against the Florida Panthers Monday afternoon at Hertz Arena.

Lightning strikes at 50,000 degrees. That is five times hotter than the surface of the sun. This week is Lightning Safety Awareness Week, and brings with it many ways of understanding lightning ...

Bolt has been a familiar sight at Tampa Bay Lightning games since September 2019. He was in the training program to become a guide dog for Southeastern Guide Dogs, and Davis, who works for the ...

The Lightning Bolt drawing championships take place on Sunday 1 September at the Racecourse between 14:00 BST and 16:00. Get in touch. Do you have a story suggestion for Northamptonshire?