Lightning is a fascinating but dangerous atmospheric phenomenon. New research reveals that brief bursts of intense laser light can redirect these high-power electrical discharges. Using an ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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 ...

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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 ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. 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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Lightning rods have been used to safely guide strikes into the ground since Benjamin Franklin's day, but their short range (roughly the same ...

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The project, 20 years in the making, required a super powerful laser to be shot into the sky. The hope is the laser could draw lightning away from places we don't want it to hit. Researchers were able ...

Maybe this is the use the Wicked Laser was built for: LIGHTNING JOUSTING! Cold hard technology versus the awesome might of nature. And yet the red beam of man’s raw lust for power pierced through ...