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 ...

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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 ...

XRISM’s observations of GX13+1 revealed a slow, fog-like wind instead of the expected high-speed blast, challenging existing models of radiation-driven outflows. The discovery hints that temperature ...

Much like other cosmic beasts, black holes grow by accreting mass from a surrounding disk. And they are messy eaters. To conserve the disk's angular momentum and prolong the feast, they eject ionized ...

We can’t see the wind, but we can learn about it by observing things that are being blown about. And by studying changes in a comet’s bright tail of gas and ions, scientists are on the trail to ...

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 ...