Waterfalls, fog, and snow wreathe Yosemite in these beautiful winter landscapes by photographer Michael Shainblum. I love how the tendrils of water and mist give you a real sense of Keep reading
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Flying Through Waterfalls
Swifts and starlings often make their nests behind waterfalls. To explore how these birds traverse their watery curtain, researchers observed hummingbirds, a smaller sister species, flying through an artificial waterfall. Keep reading
Forming a Waterfall
Many factors can affect a waterfall’s formation – changes in bedrock structure, tectonic shifts, and glacial motion, to name a few. But a new study suggests that some waterfalls may Keep reading
Hawaii’s Lava
Sometimes the best way to appreciate a flow is standing still. In “Hawaii – The Pace of Formation” filmmakers explore how the Big Island is constantly changing, from fresh lava Keep reading
Fluids Round-Up
Time for another fluids round-up! Here are some of the best fluids-related links I’ve seen around: – Above The Brain Scoop tells us about beetles that spend their whole lives Keep reading
Flowing Up a Waterfall
Tea-drinking physicists found that it’s possible for particles to flow up a short (< 1 cm) waterfall to contaminate pure upstream sources. Their apparatus is shown above, along with an Keep reading
Airfoil-shaped Ice
I discovered this interesting bit of icing a couple years ago near the foot of a waterfall in Ithaca, NY. The predominant wind was always heading toward the falls (left Keep reading