When brooding their eggs, penguins can rarely leave the nest, but answering nature’s call is still necessary. To keep the nest clean, Adélie penguins project their feces up to more Keep reading
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Choosing Swimming Over Flight
When studying modern birds it quickly becomes apparent that they can either be good at swimming or at flying, but not at both. The characteristics that make wings good for Keep reading
Fish, Feathers, and Phlegm
Inside Science has a new documentary all about fluid dynamics! It features interviews with five researchers about current work ranging from the physics of surfing to the spreading of diseases. Keep reading
Huddling Penguins and Traffic Jams
Male emperor penguins have the unenviable task of incubating their eggs in temperatures as cold as -50 deg Celsius and winds of up to 200 km/h. To stay warm, the Keep reading
Fluids Round-up – 25 May 2013
Sometimes I come across cool links and stories about fluid dynamics that don’t quite fit into a typical FYFD post, but I’d like to start sharing those semi-regularly with round-up Keep reading
Penguins Can Be Colder Than Their Surroundings
Thermal imaging of emperor penguins in Antarctica shows that, in still conditions, large portions of their bodies remain colder than ambient temperatures. In the image above, the heads, beaks, eyes, Keep reading
Supercavitating Penguins
[original media no longer available] Penguins, already fluid dynamicists by nature, have developed clever methods of increasing their speed to escape from the leopard seals that prey on them. In Keep reading