Credit: Terry McGraw/Pixabay. When a cloudy plume of ice and water vapor billows up above the top of a severe thunderstorm, called a supercell, there’s a good chance a violent tornado, high winds, or hailstones bigger than golf balls will soon pelt the Earth below. The new study reveals the

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Quartzite with traces of burrowing animals. The scale is marked in centimeters. Credit: Stefan Bengtson/Swedish Museum of Natural History. For half a century, geologists have been baffled by perforations in a piece of quartzite, a type of rock, in Western Australia. The markings are identical in shape to burrows made

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Hurricane Ida is pictured as a category 2 storm in this near bird’s-eye view from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA. When a cloudy plume of ice and water vapor billows above the top of a severe thunderstorm, there is a good chance a violent tornado, high winds or hailstones

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Credit: Toby Elliott/Unsplash. Lava samples have revealed a new truth about the geological makeup of the Earth’s crust and could have implications for volcanic eruption early warning systems, a University of Queensland-led study has found. UQ volcanologist Dr. Teresa Ubide said it was previously understood that cooled lava from so-called

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Credit: Public Domain CC0. The most devastating tornadoes are often preceded by a cloudy plume of ice and water vapor billowing above a severe thunderstorm. New research reveals the mechanism for these plumes could be tied to “hydraulic jumps” – a phenomenon Leonardo Da Vinci observed more than 500 years

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