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“Mist and Water”

Nicole Sharp - January 8, 2021December 17, 2020

Years ago, I drove through the Blue Ridge Mountains on a wet and misty New Year’s Day. The fog that clung to the dark trees made the whole world quiet Keep reading

Artist's illustration of a high-density configuration of supercooled water, with oxygen molecules in red and hydrogen in silver. Research

Dual Structure of Water

Nicole Sharp - January 7, 2021December 17, 2020

Water is so ubiquitous in our lives that we rarely recognize just how strange it is. For example, when pure liquid water is supercooled well below its freezing temperature, it Keep reading

A sunspot larger than the Earth. Phenomena

Eyes on the Sun

Nicole Sharp - January 6, 2021December 16, 2020

Though it may look like the Eye of Sauron, this image is actually one of our best-ever glimpses of a sunspot. Captured by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, this Keep reading

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Seismic Events Reveal Ocean Temperatures

Nicole Sharp - January 5, 2021December 16, 2020

Decades ago, researchers proposed sending sound waves through the ocean to measure its temperature. Although the technique worked, it ran into noise pollution issues, but now it’s back, using naturally-occurring Keep reading

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The Strangeness of Sand

Nicole Sharp - January 4, 2021December 15, 2020

Sand and other granular materials can flow, jam, and transmit forces in counterintuitive ways. This Lutetium Project video gives a nice overview of some of these bizarre properties. Many of Keep reading

Juvenile catfish convect for safety in large numbers. Admin

The Best of FYFD 2020

Nicole Sharp - January 1, 2021December 30, 2020

2020 was certainly a strange year, and I confess that I mostly want to congratulate all of us for making it through and then look forward to a better, happier, Keep reading

Art

Vanishing Spirits: Aging

Nicole Sharp - December 31, 2020December 14, 2020

The necessary ingredients for scotch whisky’s evaporation patterns are alcohol, surfactants, and polymers; some of those components are absorbed during the spirit’s aging in oak casks. Photographer Ernie Button explored Keep reading

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Vanishing Spirits: Rice-Based Whisky

Nicole Sharp - December 30, 2020December 14, 2020

In yesterday’s post, photographer Ernie Button showed us that barrel-aged gin can leave behind an evaporation pattern remarkably similar to scotch whisky. But even among whiskys not every spirit uses Keep reading

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Vanishing Spirits: Gin

Nicole Sharp - December 29, 2020December 10, 2020

Photographer Ernie Button has spent years exploring the patterns left by evaporating scotch. A team of researchers found that the uniformity of scotch whisky’s stain requires three ingredients: alcohol to Keep reading

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Rocket Yeast

Nicole Sharp - December 28, 2020December 9, 2020

Usually, microbial colonies are grown on a solid substrate, but what happens when they grow on a liquid surface? That’s the question explored in this Gallery of Fluid Motion video Keep reading

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