A novel unified hydrodynamic model proposes a single mechanism to explain the contrasting equatorial jet stream directions on gas giants (eastward on Jupiter/Saturn) and ice giants (westward on Uranus ...

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The US had a rare year without a hurricane make landfall, but it saw too much extreme rainfall and flash flooding across the country.

At the end of October 2024, a grey gloom descended over the British Isles. Nothing unusual there. But this murky shroud was particularly persistent, even for the UK. Some regions barely saw the sun ...

(The Conversation) – The summer of 2025 brought unprecedented flash flooding across the U.S., with the central and eastern regions hit particularly hard. These storms claimed hundreds of lives across ...

Scientists may finally have an answer for why the ferocious jet streams on the solar system’s giant planets blow in opposite directions - eastward on gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, and westward on ice ...