Looking for a fun activity to do at home with your kids? This science experiment is fun for all times of the year, but it's a great way to teach summer safety outdoors!

Led by Univerisity of Maryland researchers, this novel experiment reveals how thunderstorms affect our climate and how Earth’s atmosphere breaks down pollution.

With this experiment and data from NOAA’s Geostationary Lightning Mapper satellite instruments ... both natural and human-made pollution,” Allen said. Laura is Popular Science’s news editor, ...

Chronic curiosity led Benjamin Franklin to fly a kite into a thunderstorm-he got a mild shock and proof that lightning is electrical. A year later, a Russian professor tried the experiment and was ...

We see lightning often during Oklahoma's storm season. But did you know there's a science experiment to recreate it? On this Coca-Cola Porch, News On 6's Alyssa Miller was live at Discovery Lab ...

Let’s talk about the kite and the lightning storm. In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated ...

When lightning strikes, air molecules are split by heat. The reaction produces nitrogen oxides, gases also created by car exhausts. Lightning contributes 10% to 15% of global nitrogen oxides.

Scientists redid an experiment that showed how life on Earth could have started. They found a new possibility By CNN Newsource Published March 28, 2025 4:10 am ...