A lightning rod or attractor is simply a metal pole installed at a high point, which carries the bolt through a copper or aluminum cable to the earth.

A home in Melissa is one of many North Texas houses in ashes after being struck by lightning, preventable with lightning rods during storms, experts say.

A Lightning Rod in Grow a Garden is a useful, albeit a little rare, piece of equipment you can use to influence how a specific type of weather behaves in your garden. As you probably know, weather ...

Roblox Grow A Garden has many ways to cash in on your crops, but using a lightning rod is a clever way to get big money.

In a world first, Japanese researchers flew a lightning-proof drone in a thunderstorm, using it to induce and direct natural lightning strikes. The team is now working on how this flying lightning ...

Though being struck by lightning is usually bad, the tropical tree Dipteryx oleifera benefits. A strike kills other nearby trees and parasitic vines.

Climate change increases lightning strikes globally, making lightning rods crucial for protection against deadly strikes.

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.

Ben Franklin’s famous experiment with the kite and key gave him a better understanding of the nature of electricity. But did that event lead to the lightning rod?

Automatic manual shifters are common nowadays, but the experimental "Lightning Rod" shifters in the Hurst/Olds muscle car was the first, strange version of it.

Lightning rods that use laser beams can efficiently (and safely) guide bolts of lightning, preventing random strikes, scientists explain. Here’s how they work.