A coronal mass ejection from the Sun set night skies ablaze in mid-October 2024. This composite panorama shows a busy night sky over New Zealand’s South Island. A widespread red Keep reading
Tag: fluids as art
“Now I See – The Collection Vol. 2”
In the next video of his current collection, Roman De Giuli takes us flying over liquid landscapes that look like our Earth in miniature. Many of them have the feeling Keep reading
“C R Y S T A L S”
In “C R Y S T A L S,” filmmaker Thomas Blanchard captures the slow, inexorable growth of potassium phosphate crystals. He took over 150,000 images — one per minute Keep reading
Stunning Interstellar Turbulence
The space between stars, known as the interstellar medium, may be sparse, but it is far from empty. Gas, dust, and plasma in this region forms compressible magnetized turbulence, with Keep reading
“Monsoon 7”
Storm-chasing photographer Mike Olbinski (previously) returns with another stunning timelapse of summer thunderstorms in the western U.S. I never tire of watching the turbulent convection, microbursts, billowing haboobs, and undulating Keep reading
Flamingo Fluid Dynamics, Part 2: The Game’s a Foot
Yesterday we saw how hunting flamingos use their heads and beaks to draw out and trap various prey. Today we take another look at the same study, which shows that Keep reading
“Soap Bubble Bonanza
This video offers an artistic look at a soap bubble bursting. The process is captured with high-speed video combined with schlieren photography, a technique that makes visible subtle density variations Keep reading
The Hidden Beauty in the Mundane
Physicist Sidney Nagel has spent his career on topics that are somewhat unexpected: how coffee stains form, how droplets splash — or don’t, and how fluid flows into viscous fingers. Keep reading
“Now I See – The Collection Vol. 1”
On the heels of his behind-the-scenes introduction, here’s the first volume of artist Roman De Giuli’s “Now I See”. In it, we appear to soar above vast colorful landscapes. Rivers Keep reading
“Spines”
Water droplets cling to spine-covered plant life in this series from photographer Tom Leighton. The hairs are hydrophobic — notice how spherical the drops appear. Many plants make parts of Keep reading