An Injection of Chaos Solves a Decades-Old Fluid Mystery
Fluids can be roughly divided into two categories: regular ones and weird ones. Regular ones, like water and alcohol, act more or…
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The Physics of the James Webb Space Telescope
There's actually another good reason to use infrared light for the JWST: It's difficult to get an unobstructed view of far-away…
Detailed Footage Finally Reveals What Triggers Lightning
So Dwyer and his team turned to the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a network of thousands of small radio telescopes mostly in the…
A Staple of Sci-Fi Space Travel Will Likely Remain a Fantasy
In Poul Anderson's 1970 novel Tau Zero, a starship crew seeks to travel to the star Beta Virginis in hopes of colonizing a new…
Earth’s Oceanography Helps Demystify Jupiter’s Flowing Cyclones
Lia Siegelman had just been studying the swirling waters of the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica, when she happened to…