Lightning's electromagnetic fields may have protective properties

Thursday, December 27, 2018 - 10:30 in Physics & Chemistry

Lightning was the main electromagnetic presence in the Earth's atmosphere long before the invention of electricity. There are some 2,000 thunderstorms active at any given time, so humans and other organisms have been bathed in extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic fields for billions of years.

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