In He Built a Lightning Gun, the creator demonstrates an incredible feat of engineering by building a device that generates lightning on demand. Dr. Ben Miles, a nuclear engineer, reacts to the ...

Harvard physicist Daniel Davis had a spark of brilliance when he built his own lightning machine — and it sings. An educator, fulminologist and craftsman by trade, Davis has been fascinated by ...

All it takes is a directional lightning detector, a PC, and an Internet connection. Then you can contribute to a sensor net showing real-time lightning strikes through Blitzortung.org. The focus of ...