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A group of scientists say they successfully steered bolts of lightning using laser technology during a storm in Switzerland, demonstrating a potential new method to protect infrastructure from ...

Benjamin Franklin is credited with inventing the lightning rod, and for some 270 years it has remained the main tool for protecting buildings from destructive and potentially deadly thunderbolts. But ...

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 ...