Aleks Phillips is a Newsweek U.S. News Reporter based in London. His focus is on U.S. politics and the environment. He has covered climate change extensively, as well as healthcare and crime.

A new scientific explanation for the division of the Red Sea ... in the Aegean Sea, pulled 5,000-foot high tidal waves into a gigantic 70-square-mile crater, one mile in depth.

THE CROSSING of the Red Sea, by Nicolas Poussin, 1633–34. ‘What made it miraculous is that it happened just there, just then, when the Israelites seemed trapped.’ (credit: Wikimedia Commons ...

is part of a larger research project on the effects of wind on water depth and the effect of Pacific typhoons on storm surges. He ruled out the Red Sea as the location of the Israelites' crossing ...