For decades, scientists have known about “equatorial waters”—masses of ocean that separate waters north and south of the equator—in both the Pacific and Indian oceans. But a similar mass in the ...

Ethereum developers have raised the blob limit for a second time in recent weeks, a move that will allow more transactions to be batched via rollups, making them cheaper. Ethereum scalability was ...

Experts believe a giant mass of hot rock known as the Northern Appalachian Anomaly (NAA) is heading toward New York City. A new study suggests that the NAA could be responsible for the split between ...

Imagery from NOAA's “Blobtracker” shows the intensity of the 2014-16 Pacific sea temperatures, compared to 2024 which also saw record sea surface temperatures in some areas of the Pacific, as did the ...

A weather phenomenon called "The Blob" could have a major impact on Chicago's winter forecast, but what is it exactly? While it may be the title of a famed horror movie, this version of "The Blob" isn ...

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, ...

Azure Blob Storage, like any object data service, is a high-value target for threat actors due to its critical role in storing and managing massive amounts of unstructured data at scale across diverse ...

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 ...

Look, seasonal forecasting is tricky, and there are LOTS of large-scale climate processes that factor into it. Marine heat waves, which is what the blob is, are definitely one of them. And they are ...