SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Small, portable laser pointers could be used to guide lightning strikes, with a study suggesting the technology may prevent bolts from sparking wildfires, a researcher told AFP Thursday. A team of international scientists have shown storm clouds could be “short-circuited” by using a hollow laser — like a pipe of light —  to deliver particles into the clouds and draw lightning strikes, research co-author Professor Andrey Miroshnichenko from the University of […]