President Donald Trump has signed a slew of policies aimed at wiping transgender people out of government records, sports and ...

Trans people are less than 1% of the population. Trump made them a political lightning rod - Donald Trump has signed a slew ...

Lightning rods can help with this. A Lightning Rod serves two purposes; it protects the farm and also collects energy, creating a Battery Pack the day after it has been hit by lightning during a ...

In the mid-18th century, Benjamin Franklin helped elucidate the nature of lightning and endorsed the protective value of lightning rods. And yet, a hundred years later, much of the public remained ...

The trees may have even evolved to act as lightning rods. Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new study ...

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Sen. Chuck Schumer’s role as the Democrats’ minority caucus leader makes him, institutionally, his party’s most powerful elected official. Last week, Schumer and several colleagues acceded ...

The trees may have even evolved to act as lightning rods. The research was led by Evan Gora, a forest ecologist at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Gora studies how lightning impacts ...

And that has made it a political lightning rod that has drawn criticism from Israel and, perhaps unexpectedly, from some pro-Palestinian activist organizations. Filmed from 2019 to just days after ...

The trees may have even evolved to act as lightning rods. Lightning kills hundreds of millions of trees per year. But in 2015, while working in Panama, Gora and his colleagues came across a ...