In extreme cases, sonic weapons can cause nausea, dizziness, and even permanent damage. In this case, officials used it to ...

Russia’s war economy is fully devoted to the struggle in Ukraine—giving the Kremlin few resources for long-term projects like a sixth-gen fighter jet.

A true story about a performance group that merges science and music using Tesla coils, lightning instruments, and live ...

With a 40th anniversary edition of 'The Power Station' arriving, Duran Duran's John Taylor remembers the short but successful '80s supergroup.

A rover recently captured sounds of lightning crackling on Mars, over a decade after scientists uncovered the first evidence ...

Lightning strikes happen when electricity builds up inside storm clouds and between the clouds and the ground. Inside a thunderstorm, tiny ice particles and small hailstones bump into each other as ...

In fiction, magic makes levitation easy. With a simple swish-and-flick of his wand, Ron Weasley yanks a troll’s club high above its head in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Through graceful ...

The study presents the first in-situ evidence of electrical activity in the Martian atmosphere, identifying 55 distinct triboelectric discharge events. These electrical discharges, unlike terrestrial ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.(AP) — Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover. The crackling of electrical ...

A selfie of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, on July 23, 2024. The image is made up of 62 individual images that were stitched together. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists have detected what they ...