As a general rule, no one knows when or where lightning will strike. But on Saturday night, it will strike on the grounds of the Clinton Presidential Center. And everyone is invited to watch.

Most of us are afraid of lightning. One man in Newcastle actually likes lightning so much he's making it in his backyard. Kevin Eldredge can bring the fire in the sky down to earth with a device he's ...

Carbon nanotubes have gotten fanfare for rebooting Moore's Law and possibly powering the next generation of space probes, but that's not all the versatile material can do. How about shocking nanotubes ...

“It’s an amazing machine,” says businessman and art collector Alan Gibbs, on the telephone from a Detroit hotel room. “The power flows out of it like a river of water. . . . It pours out. When you’re ...

Tesla coils are beautiful examples of high voltage hardware, throwing sparks and teaching us about all kinds of fancy phenomena. They can also be quite intimidating to build. [William Fraser], however ...

For the past few years, scientists at Rice University have kept a secret, which they’ve only just announced. While toying with Tesla coils and nanotubes, a group of researchers noticed something ...

The goal of the project is to create a smaller and portable Plasma Gun device that will be based on the larger battery powered Tesla Coil. Two small high voltage ignition coils wired together in an ...

Easy Tesla Coil project features a wireless transmission of electricity. It is a wireless power transfer project that is achievable with few materials and some basic electronic components. This ...