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 ...

The lightning-flash descending the lightning-rod often chooses to leap to some neighboring metallic pipe or wire, through intervening partitions of wood or stone, before it seeks the ground.

The standard way of protecting buildings (and their occupants) from lightning is pretty simple: You stick a lightning rod on the roof, and then some kind of conducting channel that takes the huge ...

The destructive power of lightning is awesome, and people have long looked for protection against it.In the Middle Ages, when the prevalent belief was that lightning never struck the same place ...

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 ...

Field campaign in Panama will study whether lianas help trees to survive lightning strikes. Tropical rainforests in Central and South America are being overrun by lianas, parasitic woody vines ...

It’s tough, because once you become a lightning rod, that doesn’t really change even when you do produce. … One time you’re great and the next time you’re the worst.