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- For the first time, scientists were able to show they can bend lightning from a storm with a laser.
- The project, 20 years in the making, required a super powerful laser to be shot into the sky.
- The hope is the laser could draw lightning away from places we don't want it to hit.
Researchers were able to deflect lightning using a powerful laser shot into the sky — a scientific first.
A powerful laser was able to deflect a lightning bolt almost 200 feet before it hit a lightning rod, greatly improving the rod's function.