A weaker, wavier jet stream enables Arctic air to spill south to midlatitudes. NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION STUDIO Every time severe winter weather strikes the United States... Read more »
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(LEFT TO RIGHT) STEPHEN VOSS; NYXOLYNO CANGEMI/U.S. COAST GUARD; SELEGGT For a decade, Francis Collins has shielded NIH—while making waves of his own This month marks geneticist Francis Collins’s... Read more »
Iceberg in front the antarctic peninsula (Photo: Thomas Ronge). The melting of glaciers on one side of the world can activate disintegration of glaciers on the other side of... Read more »