Scientists have succeeded in using weather satellites to track ocean currents in real time with an unprecedented level of ...

A harbor seal sports about a hundred whiskers — which are more than just for show. They provide the animals with key intel on ...

Large swell forms a swirling ocean at Australia’s Manly Beach, causing dangerous conditions for surfers and swimmers, yet a ...

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In 1980, a drilling mistake beneath a Louisiana lake triggered one of the strangest industrial disasters ever caught in ...

After an extended May preview, the "false spring" in the eastern United States is over, and is being replaced by more typical chilly March weather (for now). Highs in the 60s, 70s and 80s are being ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive explain the physics of water suction and the best swimming moves to escape the pull of a spinning vortex in the ocean. Trump’s chances of being removed by ...

Acoustic waves are usually thought of as purely longitudinal, moving back and forth in the direction the wave is travelling and having no intrinsic rotation, therefore no spin (spin‑0). Recent work ...

It’s a rude awakening as a slice of the polar vortex — the circular winds high above the North Pole — spins into the Berkshires, a necessary reminder that we’re barely into midwinter following a ...

HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK (HawaiiNewsNow) - Episode 37 of Kilauea’s eruption featured lava fountains shooting 400 feet in the air and a dramatic ‘volnado’ dust devil. The lava fountains began ...

First, the team taught a harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) named Filou, who lived at the Marine Science Center, Rostock, to submerge his head while blindfolded as they released a spinning vortex ring from ...