WASHINGTON - The holiday travel season is here, and many people are packing their bags, setting alarms for early flights, and ...

How Would You Define a Jet Stream? The jet stream, one of the most dramatic forces of nature, was discovered during World War II when aviators first tried to cross the Pacific. This strong wind ...

The jet that outran its era did more than set speed records; it rewrote the rules of how humans could move, spy and survive ...

Astronomers have discovered a massive black hole jet that is three times bigger than the Milky Way. The jet is known as Quasar J1601+3102, and it was first spotted by astronomers using the Low ...

A military secret that is becoming too big a cat to be kept in the bag, got partly out last week. WPB announced that production of jet-propelled planes, the latest and most revolutionary thing in ...

Around the world and particularly across much of the United States, a question has emerged: What happened to winter? In Japan, record low snowfall has forced ski resorts to close prematurely. In ...

A study offers an explanation for a mysterious and sometimes deadly weather pattern in which the jet stream, the global air currents that circle the Earth, stalls out over a region. Much like highways ...

Black Holes Monster black hole jet from the early universe is basking in the 'afterglow' of the Big Bang Black Holes Monster black hole M87 is spinning at 80% of the cosmic speed limit — and pulling ...

Some songs are earworms—catchy whether you like them or not. (I won’t infect the rest of your day with an example.) Some explanations in science seem to be the earworm equivalent: inherently intuitive ...

A new study in mice suggests an unlikely cure for jet lag: oxygen deprivation. When the animals breathed air with about one-quarter to one-third less oxygen than usual, they adapted to a six-hour time ...

Nothing can throw off the start of a fun vacation faster than jet lag. Travelers who feel groggy in the afternoon or wake up well before sunrise can blame both things on the body's biological clock ...

Ships steaming across the North Atlantic from west to east like to keep in the Gulf Stream, which increases their speed by a knot or so at no cost. Pan American’s Stratocruisers, flying from Tokyo to ...