The clouds in many 19th-century European paintings look drastically different than those in the 18th century. There are layers to their texture, with whisps of cirrus clouds flying over billowing ...

When the sun is low, and the sky is soaked with haze and blanketed with clouds, look for slabs of light coming in through the cracks. Meteorologists call these “crepuscular rays”—or, more colloquially ...

Alexandria Johnson does hard science on the most nebulous of subjects: clouds. As an atmospheric scientist and assistant professor of practice in Purdue University’s College of Science, she studies ...

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