Powerful lightning strikes pose a significant threat to buildings and people, but imagine if it were possible to control and direct them with a laser beam. Nature Photonics spoke to Jérôme ...

They’re created through electrical discharge through an insulator, with lightning being the most ... This was found at Mercury Plastics’ Neo-Beam facility, a 5MeV electron accelerator that ...

The laser was activated under favorable weather conditions, which ultimately resulted in the lightning following the beam for almost 197 feet. Of course, at least a decade will pass before the ...

A major scientific breakthrough could change how we understand and control ionization — the process where atoms lose electrons and become charged. Researchers from the University of Ottawa have ...