Winter is approaching, and millions of Americans are wondering what Mother Nature has in store for the coming months. Will it ...

Predicting the intensity of each winter ahead of time can be a challenge, but this sign is causing many residents of colder ...

For more than 50 years, scientists have dreamed of seeing the hidden patterns that govern the motion of nonlinear waves—the ...

Our new study set out to understand what happens to large pieces of floating plastic once they enter the ocean. We developed ...

Genesis Systems, a local startup co-founded by Dr. David Stuckenberg, has developed technology, they say, that literally ...

"They are the parents of all matter in the universe today, including our own bodies, while the knots can be thought of as our ...

Buried underground near the surface, frozen regions of Mars could have tiny hidden channels full of liquid water, which could be a habitable environment for microscopic organisms ...

That was Chicago’s third-coldest winter on record and conditions leading up to that winter were similar to what’s being ...

The tropical disturbance we've been tracking – officially Invest 98L – is on the cusp of becoming Tropical Storm Melissa. The ...

The Pacific Ocean along the equator is where a phenomenon called La Niña develops. La Niña is the “cool sister” to El Niño.

It began as a routine day on the water — calm seas, blue skies, nothing unusual. Then, without warning, the ocean opened up. A massive vortex formed near an oil platform, spinning faster than anyone ...

Mars’ north polar vortex locks its atmosphere in extreme cold and darkness, freezing out water vapor and triggering a ...