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 buildings ...

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Brazilian researchers captured on camera the brief moment when lightning rods on buildings released an upward discharge to attract incoming lightning. By Nicholas Bakalar Benjamin Franklin invented ...

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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 ...