Turbulence is a common, and often harmless, part of air travel. It is caused by irregular airflow in the atmosphere and ...

Experiencing severe turbulence on a plane can be terrifying and occasionally leads to injuries. Recently, multiple passengers on a Ryanair flight to Tenerife were injured when their plane encountered ...

Air cargo usually brings to mind electronics or oranges - but the skies often carry far stranger freight. From spacecraft to human organs and more, aircraft have moved some truly bizarre cargo. In ...

Producing fusion energy requires heating plasma to more than one hundred million degrees and confining it stably with strong magnetic fields. However, plasma naturally develops fluctuations known as ...

Turbulence, famously described by Richard Feynman as “the last unsolved problem of classical physics”, pervades almost all natural and engineering flows. The century-old challenge of turbulence ...

While atmospheric turbulence is a familiar culprit of rough flights, the chaotic movement of turbulent flows remains an unsolved problem in physics. To gain insight into the system, a team of ...

A calm evening flight takes a sudden twist when a small airplane encounters wake turbulence from a Dash-8 ahead. The pilot must stay focused as the plane jolts on final approach. What Happens to Your ...

Zach and Emmy’s romantic retreat aboard a hot air balloon takes a terrifying turn when they are highjacked by a sinister third passenger with a link to Zach’s past. As the mystery of their secret ...

Emergencies in Wake County are about to look and sound different. Wake EMS announced Monday that ambulances will silence sirens and turn off emergency lights for the majority of 911 calls. Ambulances ...

Physicists have devised a new model to account for the discomfort that airline passengers know all too well. By Alexander Nazaryan Bjorn Birnir dreads an airplane seatmate asking what he does for a ...

The aircraft was heading from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam in the Netherlands when it had to be diverted to Minneapolis after multiple passengers were injured on Wednesday, July 30 Becca Longmire is a ...