There's been a seismic shift in science, with scientists developing new AI tools and applying AI to just about any question that can be asked. Researchers are now putting actual seismic waves to work, ...

Models, by definition, are approximations: useful, informative, and inevitably incomplete, because they are the only way to simplify a world too complex to grasp all at once. A new study on nitrous ...

Current global climate models (GCMs) support with high confidence the view that rising greenhouse gases and other ...

When James Clerk Maxwell set out his famous equations 150 years ago, his model of electromagnetism included a piece of pure fiction: an invisible, all-pervasive “aether” made up of elastic vortices ...

People have always looked for patterns to explain the universe and to predict the future. “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” is an adage predicting the weather.

ALSO CANCELED OR SCHEDULED AN EARLY RELEASE. MANY STATES ACROSS THE COUNTRY WILL SEE THE ECLIPSE, BUT IT WILL NOT LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME EVERY WHERE. THE APPEARANCE OF THE ECLIPSE WILL BE ROTATED, ...