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An Unexpected Twist Lights Up the Secrets of Turbulence

By David H. Freedman
September 3, 2020
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Having solved a central mystery about the “twirliness” of tornadoes and other types of vortices, William Irvine has set his sights on turbulence, the white whale of classical physics.

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The Map of Mathematics

By Kevin Hartnett
February 13, 2020
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Explore our surprisingly simple, absurdly ambitious and necessarily incomplete guide to the boundless mathematical universe.

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The Grand Unified Theory of Rogue Waves

By Charlie Wood
February 5, 2020
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Rogue waves — enigmatic giants of the sea — were thought to be caused by two different mechanisms. But a new idea that borrows from the hinterlands of probability theory has the potential to predict them all.

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Mathematicians Prove Universal Law of Turbulence

By Kevin Hartnett
February 4, 2020
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By exploiting randomness, three mathematicians have proved an elegant law that underlies the chaotic motion of turbulent systems.

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For Fluid Equations, a Steady Flow of Progress

By Kevin Hartnett
January 13, 2020
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A startling experimental discovery about how fluids behave started a wave of important mathematical proofs.

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Famous Fluid Equations Spring a Leak

By Kevin Hartnett
December 18, 2019
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Researchers have spent centuries looking for a scenario in which the Euler fluid equations fail. Now a mathematician has finally found one.

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Bubble Experiment Finds Universal Laws

By Charlie Wood
July 31, 2019
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Physicists have found examples of “universality” in a system of confined bubbles. The work could help researchers understand the strange behavior of singularities.

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The Trouble With Turbulence

By Michael Moyer
January 28, 2019
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Turbulence is everywhere, yet it is one of the most difficult concepts for physicists to understand.

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A Universal Law for the ‘Blood of the Earth’

By Joshua Sokol
November 28, 2018
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Simple physical principles can be used to describe how rivers grow everywhere from Florida to Mars.


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