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 ...

FARGO - It is Spring Fashion Week in Paris and there is no telling what the designers may have been inspired by this season. But back in the eighteenth century lightning was the muse, a shocking style ...

A group of scientists said they were able to guide lightning bolts using laser technology for the first time. In new work published in the journal Nature Photonics, international researchers said ...

Lightning rods (and the accompanying protection system) are designed to protect a house or building from a direct lightning strike and, in particular, a lightning-initiated fire. Note that lightning ...

Listen to the latest science news, with Benjamin Thompson and Shamini Bundell. Your browser does not support the audio element. Scientists have shown that a specially ...

For the first time, scientists were able to show they can bend lightning from a storm with a laser. The project, 20 years in the making, required a super powerful laser to be shot into the sky. The ...

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 ...