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Skyward Wildfire has a bold plan to prevent wildfires: stop the lightning that causes them. The Vancouver-based startup raised $5.7 million claiming it can prevent lightning strikes using cloud ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists have long understood why lightning forms, but the atomic processes at the core of the phenomenon have remained largely a ...

In a world first, Japanese researchers flew a lightning-proof drone in a thunderstorm, using it to induce and direct natural lightning strikes. The team is now working on how this flying lightning rod ...