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The concepts behind the arrangement of sand and sugar can explain the diamond shape of two asteroids spinning millions of miles away.

Using simulations, researchers uncover a key clue as to whether hurricanes will decay or re-intensify after hitting land.

Warming oceans means hurricanes weaken more slowly and inflict more destruction farther inland, new study shows

Scientists gain a deeper understanding of turbulent and transitional pipe flows.

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

A twist on a textbook physics experiment sheds light on a complex phenomenon in fluid dynamics.

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

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

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