MINNEAPOLIS — When someone touches something and gets shocked, it's awkward and a bit painful. What causes static electricity? And what actually happens when you get shocked? Visitors of the ...

CHARDON, Ohio (WJW) — Third grade students at Munson Elementary School in Chardon enjoyed a special Weather Class from Fox 8 meteorologist Alexis Walters. Students were able to help with the 8-day ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Lightning is one of the most powerful and dangerous natural phenomena on Earth. A giant spark of static electricity, lightning serves as a type of “neutralizer” for electric charges ...

Static wicks, also known as static dischargers, are installed on airplanes to dissipate static electricity accumulated from moving through the air, rather than to prevent lightning strikes. Static ...

A lightning strike is like a radio transmitter, producing radio waves knows as sferics that cause the familiar static we hear on AM radio. Lightning generates a broad spectrum of radio frequencies, ...

In nature we can see some incredible things, including watching lightning strike across the sky! Lightning starts in clouds. Within these clouds there are positive and negative charges that usually ...

Researchers at Stony Brook University may have captured lightning in a bottle — or at least explained one of the theories of how it is created. Working with researchers in Spain and China, Stony Brook ...