"Convection in the crust could be a key missing mechanism." Convection processes beneath Venus' scorched surface may help explain the planet's many volcanoes, a new study reports. Venus, the hottest ...

A new type of thunderstorm, responsible for the most intense lightning ever observed, has been identified by analysing satellite observations. Eighty per cent of lightning occurs over land, where ...

THE recent spell of hot sunny weather in England made possible a series of experiments concerning the existence and magnitude of thermal convection currents in the air, arising from the reflection of ...