Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deep sea water abyss with blue sun light. We are all used to the lush green landscapes and rugged mountainscapes that define the ...

Did you realize that the rumble of thunder associated with a lightning flash is actually a result of the whipcrack sound from the lightning flash taking longer to reach the ear from greater heights up ...

Ocean physicist and author Helen Czerski is helping readers better understand the forces that shape our planet through her book The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works. A professor at University College ...

As Ebola spreads through the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, the Hawaii State Department of Health said they’re already tracking any potential exposures that could spell a threat to the ...

The crack in the Antarctic ice shelf grows by 11 miles. We’ll look at what’s coming, and talk with physicist Helen Czerski about the dynamics of the world around us. This Nov. 10, 2016 aerial photo ...

Without the laws of physics to tie the fabric of the universe, the whole thing would fall apart (more than it already has). In a general sense, we know this to be true, but understanding exactly how ...

In The Blue Machine (Norton, Oct.), oceanographer Czerski surveys the biology and physics of the global ocean. You write that you became fascinated with the ocean through bubbles. Could you expand on ...

A British scientist claims to have disproven one of the many theories that surround the Bermuda Triangle and its mysterious ship-sinking tendencies. For decades, sailors have been terrified of the ...

Tom Heap and Helen Czerski discover how flowers changed our planet.

What comes to mind when you think of the ocean? Maybe a day at the beach — swimming in the waves, snorkeling through coral reefs, fishing, surfing, and sunsets that kiss the blue horizon. But Earth’s ...

That still accounts for just a small fraction of the ocean, an interconnected mass of salt water thousands of miles in extent. As anyone who has looked properly at a globe, or studied the pictures of ...

In Blue Machine (2024), Helen Czerski refigures the ocean as an enormous planetary engine, converting light and heat into motion. Her book invites us to see the ocean not as an ‘absence’ but an ...