Flamingos standing serenely in a shallow alkaline lake with heads submerged may seem to be placidly feeding, but there's a ...

Small things matter, at least when it comes to ocean features like waves and eddies. A recent NASA-led analysis using data ...

If you look at a flamingo in very shallow water, you can often see its dancing-in-place or circular dancing behavior ... employed computational fluid dynamics to simulate on a computer the ...

Researchers have documented how the birds use their feet, heads and beaks to create a storm of swirling tornados, or vortices ...

Sunlight reflects off the ocean surface near Norfolk, Virginia, in this 1991 space shuttle image, highlighting swirling patterns created ...

In a world rebuilding itself from the ground up, few visions feel as elemental — and as elegant — as TerraLux. At the ...

Alex Foster’s debut novel, “Circular Motion,” is precisely 360 pages long, an appropriately exact total for a story about a near future in which international travel has been revolutionized ...