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 ...

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“What the laser can do is it can create a slight ... “Once we get to a yellow, that’s more of a cautionary stage. Lightning has struck within 12 and a half to 15 miles of the airport ...

Scientists have demonstrated in a first that a powerful laser beam directed at the sky can create a “virtual lightning rod” that can divert the path of lightning strikes. The research ...

The new method is far more expensive, but it allowed scientists to use a laser beam to control lightning bolts. The physicists working on the experiment did so from a mountaintop in Switzerland ...