A high-speed photo of lightning rods at work during an electrical storm in São José dos Campos, Brazil, is helping scientists understand how the devices compete to attract strikes and keep ...

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 ...

Traditional lightning rods will still do the trick for most instances, but laser alternatives could be used at spaceports and military bases.

Home > Extreme Engineers Use Lasers to Direct Lightning Strikes to Safe Targets The laser lightning rod uses ionized molecules in the air to "guide" lightning toward itself.

Playwright Tom Stoppard, in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," provides one of the best definitions of science: "The ...

A team of physicists have conducted an experiment where they used an expensive high-powered laser beam to control where lightning strikes.