Joe Hanson over at “It’s Okay to Be Smart” has a great video on the random walk photons have to make to escape the core of the sun and other Keep reading
Category: Phenomena
The Cricket’s Chirp
Growing up, my summer nights often featured a chorus of crickets and bull frogs. Even now, the sound of those chirps reminds me of home. So how do crickets make Keep reading
Tranquilizer Darts in Slow Mo
Like most syringes, tranquilizer darts use pressure to drive flow. But where a typical syringe has that pressurization provided by a human driving the piston, tranquilizer darts must deploy without Keep reading
The Sand Sea’s End
The northern extent of Africa’s Namib Sand Sea ends where the reddish dunes meet the Kuiseb River and the hard, rocky land on its other side. Within the sand sea, Keep reading
“It’s All About Flow”
Fluid dynamicists, like other scientists, have lives and interests well beyond our research. Ivo Nedyalkov, for example, is a professional rapper in addition to a PhD-level fluid dynamicist. In “It’s Keep reading
A Microfluidic Zoo
Microfluidic channels are excellent at creating a steady supply of droplets. But depending on the characteristics of the two viscous fluids being used, as well as factors like flow rate Keep reading
Ice Patterns
Periods of freezing and thawing can leave complicated patterns in ice, as seen in this aerial photo of Binnewater Lake in New York. Ice rarely forms evenly on large bodies Keep reading
Boiling Water Using Ice Water
Steve Mould demonstrates a neat thermodynamic trick in this video by using ice water to boil hot water. The key to understanding this is recognizing that the boiling point of Keep reading
The World in a Droplet
Capturing refracted images in a droplet is a popular pastime among high-speed photographers, and in this solo Slow Mo Guy outing, we get to see that process in video. Physically, Keep reading
Where are Titan’s Deltas?
Saturn’s moon Titan is the only other planetary body in our solar system known to have bodies of liquid on its surface. But where Earth has lakes and seas of Keep reading