Daniel Kish is an echolocation pioneer, teaching fellow blind people to navigate the world independently. By clicking or tapping and listening to how the sound reflects back, Kish and his Keep reading
Month: November 2024
Measuring Ocean Upwelling
Large-scale ocean circulation is critical to our planet’s health and climate. In this process, seawater near the poles cools and sinks into the deep ocean, carrying dissolved carbon and nutrients Keep reading
Gigantic Jets
Stormy skies feature much more than the forked cloud-to-ground lightning we’re used to seeing. This composite image shows a rare and recently-recognized type of lightning known as a gigantic jets. Keep reading
Curved Rocks Hit Harder
Intuition suggests that a flat rock will hit the water with greater force than a spherical one, and experiments uphold that. But a flat rock, interestingly, doesn’t produce the greatest Keep reading
“Plants That Explode”
We often think of plants as passive and stationary, but the truth is that some plants move faster than we can even see. In this “True Facts” video, Ze Frank Keep reading
“Black”
In “Black,” filmmaker Susi Sie combines her visuals of shifting ferrofluids with the music and soundscape of Clemens Haas to create an ominous, almost claustrophobic vibe. With fast cuts and Keep reading
Resolution Effects on Ocean Circulation
The Gulf Stream current carries warm, salty water from the Gulf of Mexico northeastward. In the North Atlantic, this water cools and sinks and drifts southwestward, emerging centuries later in Keep reading
Trapped in a Taylor Column
The world’s largest iceberg, A23a, is stuck. It’s not beached; there are a thousand meters or more of water beneath it. But thanks to a quirk of the Earth’s rotation, Keep reading
How a Storm Can Ruin Your Tea
Last November, a windstorm, known as Storm Ciarán in the U.K., blew through Europe with wind speeds as high as 130 kilometers per hour. All that wind came with a Keep reading
The Solar Corona in Detail
The sun’s corona — its outer atmosphere — is usually impossible to see, since it’s far outshone by the rest of the sun. But during a total solar eclipse, the Keep reading