Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of biology’s most intensively studied molecular machines. Bacteria move through ...

Usually, tornadoes in the U.S. rotate counterclockwise. Coriolis force, imparted due to the Earth’s rotation, causes air around low centers to circulate counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere.

The East African Rift System is a newly forming plate tectonic boundary at which the African continent is being separated into several plates. According to GPS data, one of those, the Victoria ...