I feel like this is one of those "in mice" kind of studies, where the headline reads like "Cure Found For Cancer" and then the study was "one type of toenail ca

I feel like this is one of those "in mice" kind of studies, where the headline reads like "Cure Found For Cancer" and then the study was "one type of toenail cancer in mice and only female genetically engineered brown mice raised on the space station." There's still something really cool about lasers shooting at and controlling lightning though. Just doesn't sound like it's happening anytime soon. Stelios Tzortzakis, a laser physicist at the University of Crete, Greece, who was not involved in the research. “If it’s useful or not, only time can say.” Over 10 weeks of observation, the team spotted the laser channelling 4 lightning events during 6 hours of thunderstorms. A high-speed camera clearly showed one strike following the straight line of the laser beam, rather than taking a branching path.