What’s the point of an outdoor car cover if it can’t protect your vehicle from all of the elements? For much of the US, that ...

An $11 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation is funding the research. Hail covers a farm field under a sunny sky. Photo courtesy of John Allen.

A "supercell" storm of heavy showers, hail and thunder left parts of Yorkshire under a thick blanket of hailstones on Thursday evening. The storms, which began at about 16:00 BST, battered much of ...