N ASA is planning a pretty neat experiment for later this year, setting deliberate fires whilst on the surface of the Moon, ...

The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. In its workings, columnist Natalie Wolchover finds the ...

U.S. Air Force pilots ejecting from fighter jets in combat is rare, but the risk rises when forces are in major air campaigns against adversaries. Here are some examples: In 2011, an F-15E Strike ...

The Coriolis effect happens because of the Earth’s rotation. This force makes things travel in a curve rather than a straight line. In the northern hemisphere, things deflect to the right, and in the ...

The Department of the Air Force’s March 19 decision to correct the records of airmen and guardsmen discharged over the COVID-19 mandate deserves real praise. At Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s ...

In honor of World Ocean Day, June 8th, we’re resurfacing a few features celebrating some of the many ways in which the ocean connects us as surfers. To picture the Coriolis effect, imagine two kids ...

I have been thinking for days about how to put into words what Dr. Norman C. Francis meant to me, not only as a leader of extraordinary vision, but as an exemplar whose quiet confidence and steady ...

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...

Modeling the Coriolis Force on a Kicked Ball: Classical Mechanics on Earth! 🌍⚽ In this video, we’ll explore how the Coriolis force affects the trajectory of a kicked ball, particularly in the context ...