Lake effect snow. It's a part of what makes western New York winters feel like a wintry wonderland that requires daily shoveling. Utica, along with Rochester, Buffalo and other communities along the ...

Apparently any place looks better if you just say it’s Japan. The idea being that the “Japan effect” is so strong, just the location tag can filter how we perceive an ordinary street or an average ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that the magnetic component of light plays a direct role in the Faraday effect, overturning a 180-year-old assumption that only its ...

After a weekend that had the first snowfall for much of Wisconsin, parts of Racine and Kenosha counties along Lake Michigan measured more than a foot of snow Nov. 10. It's a drastic difference from ...

While a larger parent storm system is typically required to produce heavy rain or snow events, lake effect snow is unique. All you need to produce some of the largest snow events on record is cold ...

It affects ocean currents, weather patterns, and even the direction planes fly. The Coriolis effect has real impacts, but it’s actually just an “apparent force” that causes moving objects to be ...

Samuel Cornell receives funding from Meta Platforms, Inc. His research is supported by a University of New South Wales Sydney, University Postgraduate Award. His research is supported by Royal Life ...

Most of our weather comes from a force that doesn't actually exist. It just looks that way because we're standing on a rotating, spherical planet. You may have even heard of the coriolis effect before ...

For the second time in history, Hurricane Humberto has the opportunity to create an atmospheric phenomenon more commonly seen in the Pacific basin known as the Fujiwhara Effect. When two tropical ...

In a world of information overload, it can feel soothing to stick your head in the sand. Don’t want to hear what the doctor might say? It’s easy not to make a follow-up appointment. Did a favorite ...

Ritwik is a passionate gamer who has a soft spot for JRPGs. He's been writing about all things gaming for six years and counting. When BioWare was at the height of its game, fans were treated to one ...