Explore Evan Reinheimer's unique kite aerial photography captures stunning views of Long Island and beyond, offering a fresh ...

The brief reprieve on the way includes daytime highs in the 70s and lowered dew points. Benjamin Franklin famously quipped: “Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.” Franklin was ahead of his time ...

Scientists already knew that lightning is an electrical discharge between thunderclouds and Earth's surface, but exactly how ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Legend has it that 250 years ago this month, Benjamin Franklin sailed a kite and a key into a stormy Philadelphia sky and made a shocking discovery: Lightning was a form of ...

MIDDLEFIELD — Those who visited Lyman Orchards this weekend navigated through a piece of Americana, trying to escape a Benjamin Franklin-themed corn maze honoring the founding father’s kite ...

When Benjamin Franklin fashioned the first lightning rod in the 1750s following his famous experiment flying a kite with a key attached during a thunderstorm, the American inventor had no way of ...