Canada’s Bay of Fundy has some of the wildest tidal flows in the world. Every six hours, the flow direction through the strait shifts and tidal currents rise to several meters per Keep reading
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Collective Motion: Crowds
It’s sometimes taken for granted that, in groups, people can behave a lot like a fluid or a granular material. This allows scientists to adapt models developed for those materials Keep reading
Impacting a Viscous Pool
Whenever a hollow cavity forms at the surface of a liquid, the cavity’s collapse generates a jet–a rising, high-speed column of liquid. The composite images above show snapshots of the Keep reading