A group of scientists have created a high-power laser beam that they claim lightning will follow for a period of time. Physicists have published a new study in the scientific journal Nature Photonics ...

A group of scientists said they were able to guide lightning bolts using laser technology for the first time. In new work published in the journal Nature Photonics, international researchers said ...

Forest fires, power cuts and damaged infrastructure…lightning fascinates and destroys in equal measure, causing as many as 24,000 deaths a year worldwide not to mention widespread destruction. Even ...

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Last year marked the 270th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod — but it’s more than a relic of history. The Franklin rod remains in use today because the simple design exploits some ...

For as much destruction as lightning causes, you’d assume we would have found ways to better mitigate its effects. Lightning kills at least 4,000 people and causes billions of dollars in global ...

The standard way of protecting buildings (and their occupants) from lightning is pretty simple: You stick a lightning rod on the roof, and then some kind of conducting channel that takes the huge ...