Wood burning, which goes by pyrography when it’s feeling fancy, has been an art form for centuries. [PapaJ06] puts a new twist on it by using a microwave oven transformer to generate fractal patterns ...

You’ve probably seen Lichtenberg figures before, those lightning-like traces left by high-voltage discharge. The safe way to create them is using an electron beam to embed charge inside an ...

A particle accelerator was used to create lightning in a bottle by charging a spinning acrylic tube with high-energy ...

The branching pattern left behind is known as a Lichtenberg figure, which forms when electricity moves through or across an ...

Looking for an unusual Christmas present? How about giving someone a bolt of lightning? Bert Hickman creates stunning sculptures by blasting an acrylic block with a 2.5 million volt particle ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GAYLORD, Mich. (WGN) — A round of storms on ...