The blob is back, and no, I am not talking about the movies about the alien blob monsters. I am talking about the Pacific “Blob”, a large area of warmer water stretching over the North Pacific Ocean, ...

Crystals—from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds—don't always grow in a straightforward way. New York University researchers have captured this journey from amorphous blob to orderly ...

The “warm blob” is back! It sounds a little like a horror movie. An expansive pool of unusually warm water in the northern Pacific Ocean has resurfaced. Washington State Climatologist Nick Bond dubbed ...

I’m generally an Apple man, but even I can admit Android’s “blobs” were the superior emoji. They’re cute, they’re fun, they’re unique, and they were unjustly retired in 2017 in a move to make ...

While the headlines make it sound as if an algal Loch Ness monster is about to destroy Florida beaches — during prime spring break season, too — one oceanographer tells Salon this claim is nothing ...

An astronaut onboard the ISS recently captured a peculiar image of Earth with two unrelated blue blobs of light shining in the planet's atmosphere. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The blob, known as the great Atlantic Sargassum belt, shrank in the Gulf of Mexico by 75 percent last month, scientists said. By Livia Albeck-Ripka For months, Florida’s usually picturesque coast was ...