Spectacular scenes as Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano enters most dramatic phase of 2025 eruption. A renewed burst of volcanic ...

Spectacular scenes as Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano enters most dramatic phase of 2025 eruption. A renewed burst of volcanic ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

Three crew members and 11 people on the ground were killed when the MD-11 cargo plane crashed after takeoff in Louisville, Ky., on Nov. 4. By Francesca Regalado and Michael Levenson A UPS cargo plane ...

The focus of a scalar vortex beam results into a transverse-axial polarization vector texture around the phase singularity, mapped from Gauss-Stokes Poincaré sphere, and forming a skyrmion. In ...

When you gotta go, you gotta go–even at 30,000 feet. CREDIT: Stuart Dee via Getty Images. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries ...

This striking satellite photo shows multiple examples of a rare meteorological phenomenon, known as "von Kármán vortices," swirling off at least six different islands in the Atlantic Ocean. Very ...

May 29, 2025 Researchers discover electric vortices in non-polar materials An international study has revealed vortex-like structures in an antiferroelectric material - a class of material with no net ...

A new study reveals how Chilean flamingos are so adept at finding food. Victor Ortega Jiménez / UC Berkeley Flamingos have a natural ability to filter out food, like shrimp and worms, from the ...

Marissa Wenzke is a journalist based in Los Angeles. She has a bachelor's degree in political science from UC Santa Barbara and is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School. Two people died and 19 ...