On a stormy day, engineers at Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) launched a small aircraft into the ...

In a world first, Japanese researchers flew a lightning-proof drone in a thunderstorm, using it to induce and direct natural ...

The development of lightning-resistant structures for drones, enables them to withstand direct strikes without malfunctioning ...

Japan’s NTT develops drones that can trigger and guide lightning, aiming to protect cities and study storm behavior.

With millions of lightning strikes recorded each year in the United States, protection should be a priority. However, is your car a safe potential safe shelter?

Japanese tech conglomerate NTT has created a drone that triggers lightning, is then struck by a heavenly bolt it instigated, ...

Though being struck by lightning is usually bad, the tropical tree Dipteryx oleifera benefits. A strike kills other nearby trees and parasitic vines.

About 1.4 billion lightning strikes occur around the world each year — if we could harness them, it would meet roughly 1.5 ...