Life emerged on Earth some 3.8 billion years ago. The "primordial soup theory" proposes that chemicals floating in pools of water, in the presence of sunlight and electrical discharge, spontaneously ...

A stentor is a trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism up to 2 mm long. It uses its holdfast to anchor to surfaces in ponds or ...

In an industry traditionally bound by precedent and caution, the word “fluid” now best describes the rapidly changing legal ...

Heat transfer and fluid flow are fundamental to the efficiency, sustainability, and reliability of modern energy systems. Rapid global increases in energy ...

New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of the earth’s formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the ...

Scientists uncover surprising evidence that the Kerguelen hotspot, responsible for the 5,000-kilometer-long Ninetyeast Ridge, ...

Boundary currents in the ocean impact our climate on a wide range of scales. The Gulf Stream, for example, being one of the prominent western boundary ...

Ten people were also fired from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, where researchers were building the next generation of global weather and climate models. Such cuts are “extremely ...

Its employees regularly collect weather data that help scientists monitor daily forecasts, track hurricanes, support air ...

Others in his division, the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, also were fired and their specialities make them difficult to replace, he said. "People who were impacted were definitely the key ...

NOAA data helps many decide what to wear, where to meet friends and what to do during hurricane, tornado or blizzard ...