Fractal burning creates distinctive Lichtenberg patterns on wood, resulting in branching designs that resemble natural forms.

Steve Burn isn’t typically the type to try things he sees on YouTube. “I’m not normally that adventurous,” says Burn, of Kirkwood. Then he watched videos of people pumping 6,000 volts of electricity ...

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 ...

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–99) has left his name in a few obscure places in the rambling structure of physical science. You can find Lichtenberg's ring on the moon, near the Ocean of Storms; ...