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 ...

Turbulence is undoubtedly the scariest aspect of a flight for nervous fliers — with their fears compounded by not knowing how long it'll last or how severe it's going to get. But fortunately there's a ...

Bjorn Birnir dreads an airplane seatmate asking what he does for a living. That's because Birnir is one of the world's leading scholars of turbulence, the chaotic movement of fluids, such as water or ...