FYFD

When a fluid flows through a porous bed of grains–like sand, soil, or coffee grounds–the flow rate typically increases linearly with pressure.

There’s something about watching big, awkwardly-shaped insects taking off that doesn’t get old.

Snails have a mucus for every occasion.

When a heavier fluid sits atop a lighter one, the interface between them can be unstable.

Thirteen years ago, I made a prediction that work on how to avoid urinal splashback would win an Ig Nobel Prize.

When New Horizons flew by Pluto, the dwarf planet’s bright heart-shaped glacier at Sputnik Planitia garnered much attention.

Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge flooded roughly 80% of New Orleans when multiple levees breached.

When it comes to how stars like our Sun work, scientists have long relied on theoretical predictions to describe processes we couldn’t observe firsthand.

We’re most familiar with the bright, forking lightning bolts that stretch from thunderstorms toward the ground, but there are even more types of lightning.

This timelapse from photographer Mike Olbinski shows a supercell thunderstorm that developed over Colorado and headed to Nebraska.