You're not going to actually have to worry about a gremlin on the wing of the plane or anything like that, but something like a lightning strike is a very realistic and understandable concern.

using it to induce and direct natural lightning strikes. The team is now working on how this flying lightning rod might capture and store lightning energy. There's a decent bit of energy in the ...

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

The "lightning crouch" is a position previously thought to reduce the risk of lightning strikes but is no longer recommended by experts. The National Weather Service and the National Lightning ...

A neighbor's doorbell camera captured video of the strike. After arriving, firefighters found "significant damage to the interior and exterior of the house, likely due to the lightning streak ...

Media reports say that a lightning strike in western Japan has injured five students at a school playground, including one who remains unconscious TOKYO -- A lightning strike in western Japan ...

About 1.4 billion lightning strikes occur around the world each year — if we could harness them, it would meet roughly 1.5 percent of current global energy consumption. But that’s one of the ...

A lightning strike at a school playground has injured five students, leaving one unconscious, according to local media. Students were playing football at a school in Nara, near Kyoto in western ...

The tonka bean tree can survive a lightning strike, and thrive. Lightning strikes may kill untold numbers of trees every year, but one tropical species has evolved to benefit from the sudden jolts ...

TOKYO — A lightning strike in western Japan injured five students at a school playground on Thursday, including one who remained unconscious, media reports said. Junior high school students were ...

Scientists discover trees in the lowland rainforests of Panama that use lightning strikes to their advantage. . | Credit: pawopa3336/Getty Images Lightning is usually seen as a harbinger of ...