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An anatomist explains why turbulence on flights makes us feel so ill and disoriented.
Currents can carry that deep ocean heat hundreds of miles to surface again at distant shores.
When something disrupts the smooth, laminar flow of high-altitude winds, your flight might get a little bumpy.
You might be familiar with turbulence as you experience it on a plane, or as scholars describe combustible forces of social change. But understanding how it operates is far more complex.
Meteorology researchers across the country are prepping experiments for the mini-night the eclipse will bring on August 21 – two minutes and 36 seconds without the sun in the middle of the day.
Major airports around the world will see more frequent flight restrictions in the coming decades because of increasingly common hot temperatures.
It’s all to do with the ‘Swiss cheese model’.
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Space and Aerospace Engineering Lead, University of Central Lancashire
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Professor, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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President Australian Academy of the Humanities, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of South Carolina
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Associate Research Scientist, Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University
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Neukom Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College
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Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne
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Ph.D. Candidate in Physical Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
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Associate Professor of Climate Science, Brandeis University
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Professor and Director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre, Lancaster University
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Professeur adjoint, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)
