Aurelien Houard News Today

A team of physicists have conducted an experiment where they used an expensive high-powered laser beam to control where lightning strikes.

Scientists were able to create a virtual lightning rod using a large, powerful laser atop a mountain in Switzerland, successfully diverting the path of lightning strikes.

Scientists said this week that they used a high-powered laser to change the direction of lightning strikes for the first time. The laser was aimed at the sky atop Mount Santis in northeastern Switzerland.

Scientists use laser to guide lightning bolt for the first time

One of the most energetic natural events, lightning unleashes millions of volts in fractions of a second, in a destructive power that may damage buildings, cut electricity, start fires and cause deaths and injurie

Researchers have used a high-powered laser beam pointing into the sky in north-eastern Switzerland to divert lightning strikes.

A storm tracking from Denver to Chicago pushes snow into town tonight. Heaviest snow falls over southeastern Minnesota & Wisconsin, but models still suggest plowable amounts - possibly something in the 3-8" range from St. Cloud to Winona.

Scientists said Monday they have used a laser beam to guide lightning for the first time, hoping the technique will help protect against deadly bolts -- and one day maybe even trigger them. Lightning strikes between 40-120 times a second worldwide, killing more than 4,000 pe...

WASHINGTON — When Benjamin Franklin fashioned the first lightning rod in the 1750s following his famous experiment flying a kite with a key attached during a thunderstorm, the American inventor had no way of knowing this would remain the state of the art for centuries. Scientists now are moving to improve on that 18th century innovation with 21st century technology...

Scientists use laser to guide lightning bolt for first time