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 ...

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 ...

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As we stood before the rich carvings, the bas-relief, and mediæval tracery of an old cathedral in a European city, our eyes wandered upward, beyond the gargoyles, beyond the fretwork, and finally ...

Whenever lightning is about to happen in 128 blocks (64 blocks in Bedrock Edition) around the lightning rod, the lightning strike will be redirected to the rod instead of a random block. This is ...

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 ...

Getting struck by lightning, even in Minecraft, is incredibly unlikely, but that doesn't mean that players shouldn't be prepared. The first part of the Caves and Cliffs update is here, and with it ...

I had been noticing a whole series of lightning rods mounted on roof peaks at a nearby shopping mall. They all looked like this: Figure 1 Lightning rod mounted on roof peak. I wondered what purpose ...

Collects energy from lightning storms and turns it into battery packs. Lightning on a Farm can be troublesome. It can destroy trees and crops, and generally make a mess of your meticulously planned ...

Though lightning is supposed never to strike twice in the same place, and might be supposed by now to have struck each & every place in the U. S., the U. S. lightning rod industry continues. According ...