Hot Jupiters, giant planets that circle their stars in just a few days, have long defied simple explanations of how planetary ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Last year, onlookers observed a startling site on China’s Qiantang River: waves forming a grid-like pattern. Dubbed the “matrix tide,” this complex wave pattern was caused by the river ...

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There are multiple examples of fractal patterns in nature, from peacock feathers, snowflakes, and leaves, to cloud formations and coastlines. A group of graduate students have spotted similar fractal ...

In October 1943, the oceanographer Arthur Doodson, head of the Liverpool Tidal Institute, got a letter from his friend Commander Ian Farquharson. For months, Doodson and the machine he’d perfected had ...

Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 64: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 11th INTERNATIONAL COASTAL SYMPOSIUM ICS2011 (2011), pp. 1614-1618 (5 pages) A 3D baroclinic model (Mohid) was used to perform ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 72, No. 2 (Feb., 1985), pp. 161-174 (14 pages) Study of seed banks, field seedling emergence, and survival of macrophytes in four zones (steep bank-SB; gentle bank-GB; ...