Discover Top Posts Tagged with #buoyancy

Melting Can Propel Icebergs

Icebergs have long served as a metaphor for not knowing what's going on beneath the surface. Studies like today's are a reminder of why that is. (Image and research credit: M. Berhanu et al.; via APS)

#buoyancy #convection #flow visualization #fluid dynamics #iceberg #melting #physics #plume #science #self-propulsion

#buoyancy

Mall Pizza 🍕 Nostalgia

Canon T50 on Phoenix 200

(Film scanned and Developed by The DarkRoom Film Lab)

#photography #analog #film is not dead #filmisnotdead #film photography #35mm #buoyancy #35mm film #canon #pizza #malls #mall #mall pizza #phoenix #phoenix 200

Sea otters are famed for their luscious pelts, but the fur almost led to their extinction. By 1938, only a tiny population of ~50 remained c

Sea otters are famed for their luscious pelts, but the fur almost led to their extinction. By 1938, only a tiny population of ~50 remained clinging to the central California coast. Since then, the mammals have battled back. However, the charismatic creatures are still at risk from crude oil spilled by offshore rigs. But no one knew how severely crude oil impacts the buoyancy of sea otter fur or how well it recovers after cleaning. And Kate Riordan from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly SLO), U.S., adds that the fur of newborn sea otter pups was also believed to be particularly buoyant, but no one had checked.

#Science #Animals #Biology #Ecology #Pollution #Buoyancy #Sea Otter