This post features biographies and notable quotes from oral history interviews with planetary geophysicist Lynnae Quick, ...

The irregular, swirling motion of fluids we call turbulence can be found everywhere, from stirring in a teacup to currents in the planetary atmosphere. This phenomenon is governed by the Navier-Stokes ...

Just after 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, final beams of oxygen ions—oxygen atoms stripped of their electrons—circulated ...

For at least a decade, the quadruple axel jump was figure skating’s white whale. “It’s been this unreachable thing, like the four-minute mile” once was, says Matthew Lind, a technical specialist for U ...

UNIDENTIFIED ANNOUNCER: Back to Maye, who throws it down the field. It's caught. KWONG: And this pass - the spiral pass - has actually baffled physicists for decades, including Regina Barber, my ...