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 ...

MORRIS -- Lightning strikes have the power to blow a chimney off a house and cause millions of dollars in damage to homes each year. Yet lightning rods-which protect homes from the electric shocks-are ...

Forest fires, power cuts and damaged infrastructure…lightning fascinates and destroys in equal measure, causing as many as 24,000 deaths a year worldwide not to mention widespread destruction. Even ...