Playwright Tom Stoppard, in Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead, provides one of the best definitions of science: “The scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the ...

The meteorological machine of Prokop Diviš next to his birthplace. Credit: Bohemianroots / Wikimedia Commons The American Benjamin Franklin is often credited with inventing the lightning rod, among ...

Researchers have successfully harnessed the power of lasers to deflect lightning strikes. IFLScience reports that Dr. Aurélien Houard and his team at ENSTA Paris have demonstrated that lasers can ...

Go back to the mid-eighteenth century when Benjamin Franklin and his son, William, conducted an experiment that involved a kite, a string and lightning bolts. Sound dangerous? Well, it certainly was.

Playwright Tom Stoppard, in “Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead,” provides one of the best definitions of science: “The scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the ...

In a development that would look right at home in a sci-fi disaster film, researchers have developed a laser beam that can divert lightning. Pointing skyward from the spectacular Mount Santis in ...

A European consortium led by the University of Geneva, École Polytechnique (Paris), EPFL and TRUMPF has managed to guide lightning using a high-power laser installed at the top of Mount Säntis in ...

Simply sign up to the Science myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A laser beam pointing into the sky can divert lightning strikes, a Swiss-based project has shown, in what the scientists ...

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A team of researchers from the University of Geneva has hauled a huge laser atop a mountain to shoot it at the sky, and act as a high-tech lightning rod. The team is led by Jean-Pierre Wolf, a Swiss ...