Imagine a tornado spinning over an erupting supervolcano. The result would be catastrophic beyond comprehension. While such a collision is incredibly unlikely, exploring it reveals just how ...

Move over, Sharknado, there's a new tornado combo in town, and this one's much more realistic: Volca-nado (Disclaimer: Not a technical term). What you're seeing is a weather phenomenon similar to a ...

Triggered by lightning in thunderstorms, whistler waves are radio waves that are channelled thousands of kilometres around the world via ducts in the magnetosphere. As Ian Randall reports, these ...