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Climate Classroom: The Coriolis Effect

Our weather is largely driven by a force that only exists due to our position on a rotating planet. Here's an experiment you ...
Plus: Why are hurricanes so powerful? Are winds on other planets like they are on Earth? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in ...
The Coriolis Effect is an invisible force...kind of. It is responsible for the vast majority of weather on earth, but the force doesn't actually exist. Still, we can see it on a merry-go-round.
Coriolis mass flow meters measure mass directly and remain accurate regardless of temperature, pressure or state.
Mysterious flashes of light seen in swamps and bogs could be caused by burning methane or other gases, ignited by sparks that ...
Typhoon Bualoi is racing across the East Sea at nearly twice the normal speed of a storm, a rare phenomenon fueled by ...
Turbulence is a part of flying, but it can still catch passengers off guard (especially those who’re new to flying).
The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly ...
Seasteading is making a comeback — but these utopian paradises on the high seas have a history of failure - IN FOCUS: They ...
For centuries, stories about will-o’-the-wisps have captured the popular imagination. Countless tales have been told to ...
The Fujiwhara effect is a semi-rare process that happens when two storms that are relatively close in geography orbit around ...
This behavioral origin point was exactly what researchers at the University of Chicago hoped to pin down. In a study ...