During Sunday's Superb Owl, there were some great tweets looking at science with some type of connection to football. Here is one that got me thinking: A 50-yard field goal in MetLife stadium will ...

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 ...

The Coriolis effect impacts global patterns and currents, and its magnitude, relative to the magnitude of inertial forces, is expressed by the Rossby number. For over 100 years, scientists have ...

Despite what you may have heard, it doesn’t make water go down the drain one direction or the other. But it does have an effect: The Coriolis Effect can turn ships off course and change the weather. I ...

The Coriolis Effect pushes objects clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere. And yet hurricanes spin in exactly the opposite direction. Why? Yesterday we ...

What is a fake force? Let me illustrate with an example. Suppose you want to use Newtonian mechanics. You know - where the net force is the rate a which the momentum changes with time? Or maybe you ...

In the century or so after Copernicus proposed the modern view of the Solar System, theologians and scientists lined up to criticise the theory. Chief among them was Giovanni Battista Riccioli, an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Discover how the Coriolis effect shapes weather patterns across the globe, including ocean currents and a hurricane’s spin. The ...

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 ...