I had been noticing a whole series of lightning rods mounted on roof peaks at a nearby shopping mall. They all looked like this: Figure 1 Lightning rod mounted on roof peak. I wondered what purpose ...

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 ...

(WGHP) – “Can lightning turn sand at the beach into glass?” Dianne from Winston-Salem asks. “If so, how and in what conditions?” Yes, it is possible for lightning to turn sand into glass. However, ...