AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – The Amherst Historical Society received funding to help preserve a historic sycamore tree that is more than 260 years old outside the Amherst History Museum. Lightning strike ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting hit by lightning is not usually a good thing. But one tropical tree species seems to harness heaven’s wrath. Not only do the trees survive lightning strikes, but their height and voluminous ...

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Like a high-tech hammer of Thor, a powerful laser can grab hold of a lightning bolt and reroute its path through the sky. In a mountaintop experiment, such a laser bent lightning toward a lightning ...