The Lab Report: Every week, The Lab Report takes a deep dive into the (research) lives of students and professors outside the classroom. Somewhere along the Mississippi River, a blissful current whips ...

Early-career industry physicist Aidan White tells Joe McEntee about his work as a project engineer at TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory, the UK’s designated institute for flow and density ...

“There’s no doubt that the basis of everything I do is grounded in the fundamentals of physics,” says traffic-flow researcher Brian Wolshon in this video interview with Physics World. Wolshon – who is ...

Researchers are studying a tornado's song and other 'doors to danger' in an increasingly chaotic world. About 1,000 tornadoes strike the United States each year, causing billions of dollars in damage ...

Turbulence, the chaotic, irregular motion that causes the bumpiness we sometimes experience on an airplane, has intrigued scientists for centuries. At the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — After a decade of preparation and two years of active experiments in space, a facility that Purdue University and NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland designed, built and ...

Researchers at MIT have observed “electron whirlpools” for the first time. The bizarre behavior arises when electricity flows as a fluid, which could make for more efficient electronics. Like water, ...

Adrian Bejan receives funding from the US National Science Foundation. People like to say that we cannot witness evolution because it occurs over timescales immensely greater than our lifetime. That’s ...