#turbulence — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🧠🐝 A University of #Colorado #Boulder team studied how #turbulence transforms odor signals as they travel.

Using #wind tunnels, #lasers, and real-world plume measurements, they identified three ways airflow filters, spreads, and generates odor frequencies. They argue these systematic changes encode distance and direction information #animals use for olfactory #navigation.

👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-08-decoding-reveals-odor.html

#science #smell #olfaction #bees #neuroscience #physics #cuboulder #research #biology

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🦅💨 The nankeen #kestrel, a tiny Australian #falcon, flies with exceptional stability in turbulent winds, inspiring one international #research team.

Wind tunnel #experiments showed wing and tail extensions helped #birds maintain lift and reduce #flight irregularities. The team aims to integrate these features into small #drones as #climatechange increases atmospheric #turbulence.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/technology/falcon-aircraft-turbulence/

#biomimicry #nankeekestrel #engineering #robotics #climate #aviation #australia #animals #technology #tech

“Trinity”

Inspired by the film Oppenheimer, artist Thomas Blanchard created “Trinity,” a short film imagining a nuclear explosion with macro-scale fluid motion. There’s clever video editing and compositing in this video, but no CGI. Instead, Blanchard filmed fire, sparklers, alcohol inks, pigments and more up close and in stunning detail. As always, his work is a reminder of the amazing possibilities of analog-based art. (Video and image credit: T. Blanchard)

#droplets #fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #marangoniEffect #physics #science #turbulence