Drop a ball that’s partially filled with water and it may or may not bounce. Why the difference? It all comes down to where the water is before impact. The Keep reading
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The Beauty of Flames
The flickering yellow and orange flames most of us are used to thinking of are rather different from the flames researchers study. In this video, the Beauty of Science team Keep reading
Swirling the Wrong Way
When you swirl wine, you create a rotating wave that travels in the direction that you’re moving the glass. You would expect that anything floating atop that fluid would travel Keep reading
Salinity Near the Amazon
This numerical simulation shows the variation of salinity in the Atlantic Ocean near the mouth of the Amazon River over the course of 36 months. The turbulent mixing of the Keep reading
Swirling Fluids
In this video, researchers investigate swirling fluids by studying the shapes of the free surface between air and the liquid. As parameters like the diameter of the glass, initial (unperturbed) Keep reading