Sports arenas of the future could be protected by water cannons – not to control rampaging fans, but to deflect lightning strikes. In June, a group of American engineers plan to fire supersonic jets ...

We have another question to answer, Pat D. in Pittsburgh asks, "I have heard the saying that lightning never strikes the same place twice. How true is that, because I think it does?" Well Pat, you are ...

Benjamin Franklin's 1752 lightning protection invention consisted of a rod in the air, one in the ground, and a connecting conductor. Today, this conventional wisdom still offers fire protection in ...

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 ...

Nobody has all the answers to the world’s energy questions, so New Scientist has teamed up with Statoil to search for solutions from New Scientist’s audience. The question posed was: How much energy ...

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As we stood before the rich carvings, the bas-relief, and mediæval tracery of an old cathedral in a European city, our eyes wandered upward, beyond the gargoyles, beyond the fretwork, and finally ...

Article 800 covers the installation requirements for communications circuits and equipment. As per 800.53, "Where practicable, a separation of at least 6 ft shall be maintained between communications ...

MR. H. C. BROWNE, in a letter on the early use of the lightning conductor (NATURE, Aug. 15, p. 242), quotes the “Tableau de Paris”. Readers of NATURE may wish to refer to this interesting work. The ...

THE subject of lightning protection is one of considerable importance to architects, and a book in which the existing information thereon is conveniently collated is therefore to be welcomed. Mr.