T.J. Thomson receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is an affiliate with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making & Society. Aaron J. Snoswell receives research ...

Chicago-area residents aren’t strangers to tough winters, but could a phenomenon called “The Blob” make things snowier and colder than usual? “The Blob” is of course the title of a famed horror movie, ...

Twenty-three nights with temperatures below zero, and snow falling every other day for months; many Chicagoans remember the winter of 2013-2014 as a long and difficult one. And there is one reason why ...

A marine heat wave spanning much of the North Pacific Ocean is already influencing the weather in North America and is poised to make its mark on winter. The unusually warm ocean water, coined “the ...

It’s back!!! The “blob” has returned. No, not the 1958 sci-fi film of the same name starring a young Steve McQueen in his first leading role. This “blob” is the marine heatwave that now spans much of ...

From seabirds to sea lions, wildlife along the California coast are now facing “the Blob,” a massive marine heat wave that’s become a recurring anomaly since the early 2010s. The oceanic phenomenon ...

A record-breaking and astonishingly expansive marine heat wave is underway in the Pacific Ocean, stretching about 5,000 miles from the water around Japan to the West Coast of the United States. The ...

In 1994, the small town of Oakville, Washington, experienced one of the strangest events in modern history - blobs of gelatinous material falling from the sky. This video explores the bizarre “blob ...

The lumps frozen in Mars' mantle may have been there for billions of years. Astronomers may have figured out where the mysterious blobs embedded in Mars' mantle originated. The mysterious lumps have ...

There's something large moving deep beneath New England. This is the conclusion of a new paper by researchers from the University of Southampton, England, who have been studying a mysterious patch of ...