Physics can tell us a whole lot about what happens inside our planet, its environment, and things that inhabit it.
As we approach spring, the arctic gradually comes out of its long winter night. And as polar winters get milder and milder every year, people started noticing something unusual: the Sun sometimes rises on the wrong day—and in the wrong place.
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When we think of evolution, we think natural selection, survival of the fittest. But that’s not all. Primal forces lurk work in the background. When selection disappears, they finally break free.
Recently I’ve been on an amazing trip to Hawaii. I was planning to write about the observatories there. Then I saw this.
It’s solidified lava! So… yeah… gotta talk about that!
The season is turning: time for geese, swallows, and all others to relocate. With or without coconuts. You thought this would be biology’s turf, but physicists cannot resist a cool problem when they see one! Or two… The V-shape formation Many large migratory birds (geese, apparently cranes and pelicans) fly in a characteristic V-shape formation. That doesn’t look like the most intuitive way to just go around. But … Continue reading Physics and the rules of bird flocks
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