A high-speed photo of lightning rods at work during an electrical storm in São José dos Campos, Brazil, is helping scientists understand how the devices compete to attract strikes and keep buildings ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - With three lightning strikes hitting buildings and homes in just the past week around Central Texas, some homeowners are taking proactive measures to protect their homes, and some ...

Ever seen lightning shoot upwards? If not, you’re in luck. Last year, researchers in São José dos Campos, Brazil were able to capture the exact moment that several buildings’ lightning rods reached ...

Thursday night's electrifying Valley storm produced 7,000 lightning events ranging from in-cloud to cloud-to-ground, according to Chris Vagasky, the Lightning Applications Manager for Vaisala.

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 lightning ...

Brazilian researchers captured on camera the brief moment when lightning rods on buildings released an upward discharge to attract incoming lightning. By Nicholas Bakalar Benjamin Franklin invented ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — On a dark and stormy day in ...

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 ...

If you didn't know what you were looking for, you might be hard-pressed to find it. That can be said about two things, in this case. First, Guardian Lightning Protection's office: Small, no signage ...

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 into ...