Lightning rods have been used to guide lightning strikes for centuries, but now scientists have demonstrated something a bit more advanced than a humble metal stick. Beaming a high-powered laser into ...

Scientists have found a competitor to the lightning rod — one of the most tried and true methods of controlling where lightning strikes. The new method is far more expensive, but it allowed scientists ...

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 ...

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Laser-guided lightning A laser beam shoots into the sky alongside the 124 m-high telecommunications tower on Säntis mountain in the Swiss Alps. (Courtesy: TRUMPF/Martin Stollberg) Firing a laser beam ...

Lightning strikes are a major trigger for wildfires, including the record-breaking blazes that devastated Australia, California and other regions this year. An international research team has now ...

In a development that would look right at home in a sci-fi disaster film, researchers have developed a laser beam that can divert lightning. Pointing skyward from the spectacular Mount Santis in ...