NICHOLAS BAKALAR

A powerful new European weather orbiter’s cameras capture lightning in near real-time at day or night across more than 80 percent of the world’s surface.

Brazilian researchers captured on camera the brief moment when lightning rods on buildings released an upward discharge to attract incoming lightning.

Scientists say that reintroducing the fast-moving predators to the West Coast could help control the spread of sea urchins that are devouring kelp.

Researchers are gaining a better understanding of the biochemical processes that precede female octopuses’ deaths after they lay and then tend their eggs.

Big dogs, older dogs, dogs with flat faces and certain breeds are all at higher risk of heat-related illness or death.