Earth’s atmosphere is held together by a delicate balance of jet streams, pressure gradients, and the Coriolis force. But when topography, ocean events like El Niño, or random disruptions hit the ...

Every year, the winter buzzwords start to fly before we set the Thanksgiving table. And who doesn't love feasting on the polar vortex? Everyone's favorite (or favorite to hate) phenomenon spins up in ...

Scientists are still trying to understand the atmospheric disturbances. A significant change in the atmosphere means the weeks after Thanksgiving could be colder and snowier than normal across ...

The blast is courtesy of our old wintertime foe the polar vortex, said Weather Trader meteorologist Ryan Maue on X, while the source of the cold comes all the way from such miserably figid spots such ...

Dr. Berg teaches philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. Last spring, it became clear to me that over half the students in my large general education lecture course had used artificial ...

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Ever since the collapse of the Pac-12 and the massive ripple effects caused by conference realignment, a multitude of college football rivalries and annual matchups have either disappeared or become ...

Are you afraid of boredom? In this video, Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks, author of The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life, makes the case that boredom isn’t a problem to escape with ...

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — As Ukraine's leader headed to the White House, civilians in the country’s east were streaming out of front-line towns under mounting threat from Russian forces. At the main ...

When it comes to Arctic apex predators, the polar bear is the first animal that typically comes to mind. It’s a top predator, feasting on seals and occasionally other sea mammals. Its hunting skills ...