It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So ...

This familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly ...

With a new lab-based experiment, researchers in the UK and France have recreated the characteristic cascades of energy and angular momentum that underpin key features of Earth's atmosphere. Reporting ...

An experiment explores how vulnerable modern vehicles may be to hacking techniques used by thieves. Starting with simple methods and escalating to more advanced approaches, the process reveals both ...

This past November and December Ditwah showed us how dark, eerie and haunting catastrophes cyclones can be. Past generations have suffered as shown in 1911, the Canberra Times reporting the great ...

Large-eddy simulations provide a new view into how to produce and study vortices with a central eye and eye wall inside a ...

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A life-threatening nor'easter and bomb cyclone has brought a blizzard to NYC, NJ and along the East Coast, causing widespread PSE&G outages, a NYC state of emergency, and a NYC travel ban, with ...

You may hear the term "bomb cyclone" and think it's a scary term that meteorologists made up to get your attention. But it's actually rooted in meteorology, from the term "bombogenesis." Hearing "bomb ...

When turbulent weather with whipping winds and heavy snow is in the forecast, meteorologists sometimes warn that a storm could “bomb out” or become a bomb cyclone. But what exactly does this mean?