The silence of snowfall

How sound is dampened in a blizzard

The Celatone: Galileo’s Forgotten Failure

On a breezy September morning in 1617, legendary astronomer Galileo Galilei was…

I Love Clouds, and So Should You

A Reminder to Appreciate the Ordinary

Ball Lightning

Chinese scientists have recorded the rare phenomenon in nature for the first time

Interplanetary Superhighway

Finding the routes mankind will take to colonise the solar system

Ice Damage Index

Meteorologists have devised a tornado-like scale to assess the severity of ice storms

Cloud Index: Cumulonimbus

Thunder, hail and lightning

Why General Aviation is Important

The Cradle, the Lab, the Passion 

Project Orion

Inside the plan to propel spacecraft to other planets by riding the shockwaves of…

Tempest Prognosticator

How leeches were used to forecast 19th-century storms