As wind energy scales up, researchers study the fluid dynamics challenges. Twenty years ago, wind energy was mostly a niche industry that contributed less than 1% to the total electricity demand in ...

A technique for harvesting low-speed wind energy using anchored ionic droplets has been developed by researchers in China and the UK. The approach – which taps into winds that are too weak to drive a ...

Assistant Professor Eric Edlund’s intermediate physics laboratory course is all about giving students opportunities to get hands-on experience in precise experimental measurement. That’s been tough to ...

Streams of charged particles blown from the Sun's corona — known as the solar wind — can produce extreme space weather, such as geomagnetic storms and aurorae. The solar wind is not uniform: there are ...

How Three Tiny Amur Falcons Used Physics to Travel 5,000 km (Image: Canva) Three Amur falcons tagged in India flew about 5,000 kilometres to Africa in just five days, satellite data show. Using strong ...