As the planet warms, it’s becoming increasingly rare to see cooler than average conditions across vast stretches of the ocean, particularly as an expected super El Niño scorches parts of the Pacific.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The mysterious North Atlantic "cold blob"—an unusually cool patch of ...

The science of climate change is complex, but the overall effect is pretty simple – the planet is getting warmer. Except, however, for a cool ‘blob’ just southeast of Greenland that no one has ever ...

Millions of squishy, bright blue blobs are washing ashore along the Pacific coast, creating a striking spectacle—and a pungent smell—on beaches in California, Oregon and Washington. The alien-looking ...

This spring, beaches from California to Washington have become clogged with small, squelchy electric blue animals—piled up several inches deep in some places—accompanied by a dubious smell. These ...

Thousands of bright blue, jellyfish-like sea creatures are washing up on beaches across California. The critters - called velella velella or by-the-wind sailors - typically appear in the early spring, ...

In a tank on the bottom floor of a University of Chicago research laboratory, scientists summon “The Blob” into existence by firing water jets to create an artfully choreographed series of rings.

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Two vast, mysterious blobs of hot rock around Earth’s core may have been instrumental in producing Earth’s magnetic field and caused it to be slightly wonky for millions of years. Scientists have ...

For all we’ve learned about places far away in outer space, we may have barely scratched the surface of the places lying deep within Earth. As a result, there’s a lot of information we seem to be ...