Chrissy and Jasmine, our NIU STEAM team, answer a young STEAM mind's inquiry of how there can be thunder without rain.

Lightning obeys the laws of physics just like anything else, though, and with a little bit of technology some of its mysteries can be unraveled. For one, it only takes a small radio receiver to ...

A lightning strike produces a characteristic wideband burst that shows up in the time domain as a maximum point that can easily be detected but could also be confused with radio interference from ...