Researchers challenge our assumptions on the effects of planetary rotation
The Coriolis effect impacts global patterns and currents, and its magnitude, relative to the magnitude of inertial forces, is expressed by the Rossby number....
Why a Tennis Ball Goes Flying When Bounced on a Basketball
When you bounce a tennis ball off a moving basketball, the tennis ball goes careening off at high speed. Here's why that happens.
Award-Winning Microscopic Video of Growing Zebrafish Embryos Is Mesmerizing
A glowing, branching web slowly grows more and more tiny connections, with thin white tendrils reaching in to a black void. It looks like...
Children Who Get Less Screen Time Think Better, Study Finds
Keeping your kid’s mind sharp might involve making sure they don’t spend all day on their smartphone or other screen devices, suggests yet more...
A Parent’s Guide to Teaching Kids About Consent
This week, we’ve read story after wrenching story of sexual assault. We’ve heard the old excuse “boys will be boys.” We’ve seen inexcusable behavior...
The Good Place’s Season 3 Premiere Has a New Student: The Audience
NBC’s The Good Place is a show that enjoys a good challenge. After all, it spent a whole episode dissecting The Trolley Problem—it doesn’t...
Perovskite solar cells leap toward commercialization
Scientists have developed a new method to fabricate low-cost high-efficiency solar cells. The cells were developed using the materials and compounds that mimic the...
Quantum mechanics work lets oil industry know promise of recovery experiments
Physicists developed detailed quantum mechanical simulations that accurately predict the outcomes of various additive combinations in water used for enhanced oil recovery.
New approach offers high-resolution seismic monitoring of the shallow subsurface
High-resolution seismic monitoring of the shallow subsurface has remained challenging to achieve in practice. Researchers have now developed a spatially windowed surface-wave analysis method...
Say Goodbye to @sweden, the Last Good Thing on Twitter
After seven years, the country's grand experiment—turning its official Twitter account over to its citizens—comes to a close.
