We put the natural world under a microscope and answer some curly questions about meteors, rogue waves and more. See all stories. It came out of the storm; a sudden wall of water as tall as a ...

Some buoys simply show boats and swimmers where they should go to stay safe. Others, like wave buoys, play in important role ...

Nudge your bath tub just right and you might end up reversing time. Don’t worry – you won’t end up wet, naked and without a towel in the Cretaceous period. Emmanuel Fort at the Langevin Institute in ...

When it rains, traveling waves appear on steep asphalt pavement, slowly making their way down the slope. Because these so-called "roll waves" propagate without deforming and are typically ...