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

Hot Jupiters, the blisteringly close cousins of our own Jupiter, were once treated as cosmic misfits. Now their orbital patterns are turning into a kind of forensic record, revealing how these giants ...

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 ...

Having been on the West Coast long enough to gain some perspective, Sarah Versprille has an interesting take on the Pacific Northwest and its gorgeous coastline. The singer of Portland, Oregon–based ...

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 ...