A $1 million prize awaits anyone who can show where the math of fluid flow breaks down. With specially trained AI systems, ...

In order to understand currents, tides and other ocean dynamics, scientists need to accurately capture sea surface height, or ...

Underwater wireless power transfer is emerging as a key technology for enabling long-duration, maintenance-free operation of ...

This article is part of Times Opinion’s 2025 Giving Guide. Ours is the time of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. It is also a time when accusations of antisemitism have become a political cudgel. And, not ...

Iceland’s relatively mild climate is shaped by a crucial network of currents that winds its away around the Atlantic Ocean transporting heat northward — without it, the island would be much icier and ...

The true nature of our universe as been an open debate for millennia, and recently, scientists and philosophers have pondered whether it might be a hyper-realistic simulation perpetuated by some super ...

If such a simulation were possible, the simulated universe could itself give rise to life, which in turn might create its own simulation. This recursive possibility makes it seem highly unlikely that ...

The San Francisco 49ers today announced they have signed K Eddy Piñeiro to a one-year deal. Piñeiro (5-11, 190) originally entered the NFL after signing with the Oakland Raiders as an undrafted free ...

Lifeguards have rescued dozens of people from the churning waters along East Coast beaches even as Hurricane Erin moves hundreds of miles offshore. Authorities in North Carolina said about 60 people ...

On August 19 Hurricane Erin is crawling past the Bahamas as a strong Category 2 storm and is due to head toward the Carolinas and then veer northeast over the open Atlantic Ocean. Although the storm’s ...

Hurricane Erin, currently a Category 4 hurricane, is expected to cause dangerous rip currents and coastal flooding along the Jersey Shore. The National Weather Service has issued a high-risk warning ...