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EartherThe Louisiana City Struck by Two Hurricanes Last Year Is Suffering in This Week’s Deep Freeze
On Monday night, the temperature in Lake Charles, Louisiana dipped to 14 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-10 degrees Celsius), more than 30 degrees Fahrenheit (16.7 degrees Celsius) below average. Hours later, just before the sun rose on Tuesday morning, the city’s power supply abruptly shut off, taking the six local water plants offline with it. When residents … Continued
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Tech NewsThese Long, Flowing Vortices Look Like Ribbons Tied to a Raptor
The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor entered service almost ten years ago, and it’s still one of the best fighter jets in the Air Force. In this photo you can see its sophisticated silhouette and ribbons on its wingtips. Just joking: they’re actually vapor vortices behind the aircraft. An F-22 Raptor from the Hawaii Air National … Continued
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When You’re a Scientist You Can Play With Lasers and Vortices All Day
Studying fluid dynamics is one of the most spectacular fields of physics, not least because smoke vortices and fluid currents are beautiful at every scale. Imagine watching them take shape from your office chair at work every day. This cool photo of Laser Doppler velocimetry and particle image velocimetry was taken at the MAX Fluid … Continued
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These Pretty Vortices Make This Super Hercules a Magical Aircraft
Feeling dizzy? These amazing vortices were formed by the MC-130J Commando II Special Operations tanker aircraft during its flight to the Kadena Air Base in Japan on March 19th. Three variants of the C-130J Super Hercules aircraft were recently delivered to U.S. military operators from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. [Andrew McMurtrie/Lockheed Martin]
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32 Mesmerizing Photos of Vortices, From Soap Bubbles to Spiral Galaxies
Vortices are beautiful and mysterious, found at every imaginable scale—from soap bubbles to black holes. They’re so ubiquitous, in fact, that we tend to overlook them. But new research shows that studying the simplest vortices could glean surprising scientific insights. Just look at the wonderful vortex shining in rainbow colors in the photo above. It … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch These Cute Soap Bubble Vortices Help Us Understand Deadly Storms
These swirling vortices look an awful lot like the satellite weather images we see every day, but in fact they’re the beautifully intricate surface of a soap bubble—which could help researchers understand the storms that threaten millions of lives every year. We already know that researchers from the University of Bordeaux, France, have been heating … Continued
