In 1832, Charles Darwin witnessed hundreds of ballooning spiders landing on the HMS Beagle while some 60 miles offshore. Ballooning is a phenomenon that’s been known since at least the days of ...

CANBERRA, (IANS) – Storms and air currents can influence the climate outcomes of La Nina and El Nino events, research from Australia’s national science agency has found. In a study published on July ...

Soaring birds—like osprey, eagles, falcons, even vultures—can stay aloft in the air seemingly forever, rarely flapping their wings. They glide along rising air currents in a way that has fascinated ...

FOR various experiments in which the change of a physical property with the humidity of the surrounding air has to be studied, for example, the calibration of a hair hygrometer, it is necessary to ...

The North Atlantic jet stream, a fast-moving air current circling the Northern Hemisphere, may migrate northward in the coming decades if strong global warming continues. The consequences could be ...