Most digital artists and video-game designers probably can’t explain the difference between cirrostratus and altocumulus clouds. But the increasingly detailed worlds such designers create require ...

Atmospheric scientists and engineers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have successfully created what they're calling a "cloud in a box," a programmable atmosphere designed to help researchers unlock ...

We've seen lava bombs, ash clouds and rivers of lava and recently we've seen a new kind of volcanic phenomenon called pyrocumulonimbus "That is just a thunderstorm cloud that is enhanced or just a ...

Painting clouds in digital art presents some particular challenges, and most artists will come up against them at some point. For landscape, environment and concept art, the sky will often be a major ...