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Viscoelastic Vortex Street

When flow moves past a cylinder, vortices get shed in its wake. Known as a von Karman vortex street, this distinctive pattern is seen behind flags, islands, and even behind starships.  (Image and research credit: U. Patel et al.)

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"Glacial River Blues"

Glacier-fed rivers are often rich in colorful sediments. Here, photographer Jan Erik Waider shows us Iceland's glacial rivers flowing primarily in shades of blue.  (Video and image credit: J. Waider; via Laughing Squid)

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"Frozen Waves"

Photographer Jan Erik Waider is a master of capturing incredible landscape imagery. In these videos, he uses a drone to film waves in the Baltic Sea gently undulating polygonal slabs of ice on the ocean surface. (Video and image credit: J. Waider/NorthLandscapes; via Colossal)

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Smoke Bomb

With a flurry of motion along its pectoral fin, a sting ray lifts the sand nearby and disappears into the turbid cloud. This tactic helps the animal both hide and escape. (Image credit: Y. Coll/OPOTY; via Colossal)

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"Ferro Field"

Ferrofluid forms a labyrinth of blobs and lines against a white background in this award-winning photo by Jack Margerison. Ferrofluids are a magnetically-sensitive fluid, typically created by suspending magnetic nanoparticles in oil. (Image credit: J. Margerison from CUPOTY; via Colossal) Read the full article

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Snake Tracks

Moving across sand is quite challenging for bipedal creatures like us, but other animals have their ways. Photographer Paul Lennart Schmid caught this snake on the move, with impressions of its passage still in the sand. (Image credit: P. Schmid; via Nature TTL POTY) Read the full article

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Hand-Making Artist-Grade Pastels

I'm constantly fascinated by the intersections of art and fluid mechanics. In this video, we get an inside look at a French atelier making artist-grade pastels using centuries-old methods. (Video and image credit: Business Insider)P.S. - Next week we'll kick off our Paris Olympics coverage, but if you'd like a head start on the celebration, you can find our coverage of previous Olympics here. - Nicole Read the full article

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"Chaosmosis"

After many years of featuring work from the Gallery of Fluid Motion, I'm excited to announce a new public exhibition of art drawn from the competition: "Chaosmosis: Assigning Rhythm to the Turbulent."  (Image credits: various, see individual images' titles) Read the full article