Weather balloons and “hurricane hunter” planes aid the science of understanding California’s atmospheric rivers.

An atmospheric scientist says weather patterns are changing, and that’s good news for most of the U.S. Eric Snodgrass with ...

Researchers from the University of Bayreuth and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen have investigated the movement patterns of unicellular, hydrogen-producing ...

If you’ve ever cooked pasta, you’ve probably noticed the faint, whitish ring of salt deposits left behind in your pot. It’s a ...

Scientists have made a significant leap forward in understanding turbulence, a chaotic phenomenon observed in natural systems ...

2024 was an exceptionally calm year for shark bites, with only 47 unprovoked attacks recorded around the globe.

Physicist Mathieu Souzy of the University Twente was enjoying an evening of pasta and board games with several colleagues when the conversation turned to how adding salt to a pasta pot to make it boil ...

Groundwater is water stored beneath the Earth's surface in the spaces between rocks and sediments, collectively known as aquifers.

When a single particle is released into a tank of water, it settles to the bottom due to gravity and creates a small wake drag that perturbs the flow of water around it. "If a large number of ...

That’s not to say there won’t be periods of high flow here and there.” That reduced runoff means less water for Arizonans ... a strong effect on weather patterns in North America, have ...

A recent study that spanned more than three decades of data and analyzed nearly 3 million rivers revealed a dramatic drop in flow rates. It's part of a profound transformation affecting global ...

Water is ubiquitous and seemingly ordinary, possessing no distinct color or odor. Though we often take water for granted, it ...