News tagged with swirl patterns
Coffee Cup Secrets (w/ Video)
Exactly how coffee and cream blend in that jolt of java an extra eye opener for researchers.
Jul 07, 2010 |
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Irish mathematicians explain why Guinness bubbles sink (w/ video)
(Phys.org) -- Why do the bubbles in a glass of stout beer such as Guinness sink while the beer is settling, even though the bubbles are lighter than the surrounding liquid? Thats been a puzzling question ...
Team releases findings from 2011 cruise to measure the concentration, distribution, and impacts of Fukushima radiation
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research team is reporting the results of a research cruise they organized to study the amount, spread, and impacts of radiation released into the ocean from the tsunami-crippled ...
Apr 02, 2012 |
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Spider Web of Stars in Galaxy IC 342
(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking like a spider's web swirled into a spiral, Galaxy IC 342 presents its delicate pattern of dust in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Seen in infrared light, faint starlight ...
Mar 20, 2012 |
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NASA jet stream study will light up the night sky
High in the sky, 60 to 65 miles above Earth's surface, winds rush through a little understood region of Earth's atmosphere at speeds of 200 to 300 miles per hour. Lower than a typical satellite's orbit, higher ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 07, 2012 |
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NASA's GCPEX mission: What we don't know about snow
Predicting the future is always a tricky business -- just watch a TV weather report. Weather forecasts have come a long way, but almost every season there's a snowstorm that seems to come out of nowhere, or ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Cloud streets off of the Aleutian Islands
(PhysOrg.com) -- Strong winds polished the snow of southwestern Alaska and stretched marine stratocumulus clouds into long, parallel streets in early January, 2012. After crossing Bristol Bay, the winds scraped ...
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Jan 30, 2012 |
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Warming in the Tasman Sea a global warming hot spot
Oceanographers have identified a series of ocean hotspots around the world generated by strengthening wind systems that have driven oceanic currents, including the East Australian Current, polewards beyond their known boundaries.
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Jan 30, 2012 |
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Topography played key role in Deepwater Horizon disaster, researchers say
When UC Santa Barbara geochemist David Valentine and colleagues published a study in early 2011 documenting how bacteria blooms had consumed almost all of the deepwater methane plumes following the Deepwater ...
Jan 09, 2012 |
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Bing hitches holiday hopes to Rudolph the reindeer
(AP) -- Like Santa Claus on that one foggy Christmas Eve, Microsoft has summoned Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to guide some precious cargo - a holiday marketing campaign for its Bing search engine.
Nov 23, 2011 |
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Going with the flow: Biomimetic pressure sensors help guide oceangoing vessels
Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute scientists have tackled various barriers to robots that can travel autonomously in the deep ocean. This fo ...
Nov 09, 2011 |
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