Bead lightning: Resembling pearls on a string, it is merely a particular aspect of normal lightning seen when the observer happens to view a number of segments of the irregular lightning channel and ...

The usual methods for protecting or repairing a broken cable involve tape, springs, or hard connectors. However, all of these are just temporary fixes and do nothing to actually save the cable. The ...

A single green laser, a glass bead smaller than a bacterium and a lab in Austria are helping you see lightning in a new way. Scientists have found a way to watch an object build electric charge in ...