Tumbling in Air
When snowflakes and volcanic ash fall, they tumble. Historically, it's been too hard to observe this behavior first hand -- the particles are too small to easily follow with a camera -- so scientists instead looked at larger particles falling through water. (Image credit: snow - A. Burden, experiment - T. Bhowmick et al.; research credit: T. Bhowmick et al.; via APS Physics) Read the full article














