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Research Update

Space Detectives! Sandbox Craters Reveal Secrets of Planetary Splash Marks and Lost Meteorites

OIST researchers inspired by school science to crack the conundrum of planetary craters.

Research Update

Mechanism Underlying Size-Sorting of Rubble on Asteroid Itokawa Revealed

Researchers investigate why pebbles and boulders on Itokawa’s surface occupy separate regions.

Institutional News

Typhoons Rain Away Wrath

A key missing piece in forecasting typhoon strength identified by OIST researchers.

Research Update

In the Flow: Studying Turbulence

OIST’s new experimental set-up aims to unite science and technology in the study of turbulence.

Research Update

Link Found Between Eddies and Drag

In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, Gustavo Gioia, Pinaki Chakraborty and colleagues relate the frictional drag to the eddies in a fluid.

25 December 2012