Biologists have spent generations trying to explain what controls the speed of life. You may already be familiar with the classic idea that growth rises with more nutrients and then steadies. The ...

The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ...

Hypersonic flight could one day make long-haul travel as quick as a short movie. Researchers are testing how turbulence ...

Could decades of magnetospheric theory have been looking at Earth’s electric heart the wrong way around? The answer, in new ...