To make the video, the scientists lit the water with a second laser -- a red one -- that the Sea-Monkeys couldn't see, but that let the swirling glass spheres show up during a series of high-speed ...

Remember the polar vortex, ... leaving more water uncovered. Normally, sea ice keeps heat energy from escaping the ocean and entering the atmosphere. When there's less ice, ...

A Taylor column occurs when a fluid, such as ocean water, flows over a submerged object in a rotating system, like the Earth. In this case, the vortex is caused by a bump on the ocean floor called ...

The colossal iceberg known as A23a has been slowly spinning in one spot of the Southern Ocean since April. ... a spinning vortex of water caused by ocean currents hitting the underwater mountain.

A plastic waste vortex almost the size of Queensland is currently circulating the Pacific Ocean. Now, a not-for-profit is saying that, for the first time, it can tell the world "what it costs ...

There are no walls or ground or other surfaces in the open ocean, so jellyfish create their own walls of water. The scientists captured high-speed video of eight moon jellyfish, Aurelia aurita, to ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a massive area measuring more than 1.6 million square kilometers, but it's just part of the North Pacific Gyre, an ocean region where currents collect plastic.

WASHINGTON — Remember the polar vortex, the huge mass of Arctic air that can plunge much of the U.S. into the deep freeze? You might have to get used to it. A new study says that as the ...

It was so large it could potentially swallow a boat. — -- The whirlpool from “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” has nothing on this one. A six to eight foot-diameter vortex was caught on ...

A Taylor column occurs when a fluid, such as ocean water, flows over a submerged object in a rotating system, like the Earth. In this case, the vortex is caused by a bump on the ocean floor called ...

The colossal iceberg known as A23a has been slowly spinning in one spot of the Southern Ocean since April. ... a spinning vortex of water caused by ocean currents hitting the underwater mountain.