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Packed Festival Crowds Aren’t Chaotic — They Form Living Vortices, Which Can Be Predicted with Physics
Researchers have discovered that dense crowds can spontaneously synchronize into collective oscillations, with hundreds of ...
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Scientists catch spirals of Kelvin waves in superfluid helium for the first time
Kelvin waves have been a mystery for decades but a new method involving superfluid helium-4 can help us control them.
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Crowds suck people into a vortex — surprising physicists
Studying crowd dynamics could inform strategies that help to prevent dense gatherings from becoming dangerous.
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Why Polar Vortexes Are Becoming More Common
Understanding the Polar Vortex The polar vortex is like a massive whirlpool of frigid air moving around our planet's poles.
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Rare polar vortex split to freeze millions of Americans - chilling path of severe weather event mapped
Forecasters warn that a split polar vortex is set to bring a 'large supply of cold air' to North America in mid-February as a ...
The Washington Post on MSN13d
The intriguing phenomenon helping planes slingshot across the Atlantic at 800 mph
The jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway.
Enough for Jimmy Butler? Here’s final Heat tally at NBA trade deadline
In a season that already has felt like a whirlwind, a vortex of activity ahead of Thursday’s NBA trading deadline has the ...
Jet Stream vs. Gulf Stream: What’s the Difference?
While jet streams are air patterns, the Gulf Stream is an ocean pattern that also has an impact on weather.
Powerful polar vortex in the stratosphere brings frigid temperatures to US
A strong polar vortex in the stratosphere has brought subzero temperatures to the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and deep into the South.
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When is it going to warm up? Weather Channel gives predictions for February, March, April
A strong polar vortex is expected to keep cold air in Canada and the northwest U.S. in February, March and April, according ...
Jet stream helping planes slingshot across Atlantic Ocean at 800 mph
When Virgin Atlantic Flight 10 took off from New York’s JFK International Airport this week, it was running 1 hour 13 minutes ...
Polar vortex maps show where arctic blast is set to freeze the U.S. as far as the Deep South
A polar vortex dipping down from Siberia is bringing a cold front with frigid temperatures to millions Americans. See maps of ...