In a boat it’s easy to overestimate wave heights. This is because of a phenomenon discovered by William Froude in 1861. He found that, no matter how your boat is situated on a large swell, what you ...

Clownfish like Amphiprion ocellaris (pictured in in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea) are known to make their homes amid the ...

A massive heat wave is poised to bake huge swaths ... That’s why a simple temperature reading doesn’t provide enough information to measure when it’s too dangerous to be outside.

Speed\((v)\) is in metres per second \(m\,s^{-1}\), distance \((d)\) in metres \((m)\) and time\( (t)\) in seconds \((s)\). Measuring the time taken for a sound wave ...

It uses temperature records and historical emergency room visits to measure the ... or can’t afford cooling are at much greater risk of illnesses during heat waves. Over the long term, humanity ...