Engineers at Cornell University have developed perforated, flexible panels modeled on fish gills that significantly improve ...

A fascination with fish gills has led researchers at Cornell to develop a bio-inspired approach to mixing heat and molecules ...

Large-eddy simulations provide a new view into how to produce and study vortices with a central eye and eye wall inside a ...

Airflow around rockets as they travel from Earth into space can have a dramatic impact on a mission, which is why NASA used ...

New work could help design electronic devices in which heat can be guided in certain directions, minimizing heat loss ...

The United States is getting slammed by a stretch of weather extremes, from flooding rain to record heat and late-season snow ...

Q: I bought a Vortex Hair Growth Wand and it quit working. The company’s site lists a U.S. address, but when I asked to return the broken device they gave me a warehouse in China and told me shipping ...

The bitter cold temperatures that have left a chill over the eastern half of the country aren’t going anywhere, as a major disruption to the polar vortex is coming this month. While the cold is not ...

For new readers, here’s a brief overview. The Polar Vortex is a large scale winter circulation over the Northern Hemisphere. Imagine it as a spinning wall of wind above the polar regions, stretching ...

Record cold temperatures are once again expected to hit a swath of the country this weekend—even plunging Florida into its coldest stretch of the last 15 years, potentially bringing snow to areas of ...