Hoping to learn more about one of the most glaring examples of waste and environmental pollution on Earth, a group of scientists will set sail from San Francisco today to the “Great Pacific Garbage ...

You walk into an empty room by the sea, to find a perfectly circular hole punched out of the concrete floor where a vortex of water swirls and crashes with perfect rhythm. It sounds like an optical ...

Did you know that ocean waves that come across a current from a different direction can turn into a violent, rapidly swirling tornado-like whirlpool? This can also happen if a current flows over an ...

Amazing new photos from NASA's Cassini probe orbiting Saturn reveal a dizzying glimpse into a monster storm raging on the ringed planet's north pole. Cassini took the spectacular Saturn storm photos ...

Short pulses from a laser can be twisted into a series of doughnut-like vortices, offering a way to transmit more information using light. We usually encounter vortices in water and air, but similar ...

Stop me if this isn’t as cool as I think it is (sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between “legitimately awesome” and “weather-nerd neat”), but I had to share. What you’re seeing on the ...