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 lakes, while its trumpet end creates a vortex to draw in food, such as ...

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 ...

Hypersonic flight, with speeds exceeding Mach 5, pushes the boundaries of engineering. But as vehicles slice through the ...

Researchers at the Urbana-Champaign have unlocked new insights into the turbulent behavior of hypersonic flows by using ...

The Mozambique Channel, between Mozambique and Madagascar, is home to some of the most turbulent waters in the ocean.

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 ...

The ability to track and predict potentially deadly cyclones is just one of the capabilities scientists fear we could lose as ...

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 ...