Looking at the weather map on his computer and seeing three simultaneous tropical storms forming across Asia in late November ...

The Coriolis effect happens because of the Earth’s rotation. This force makes things travel in a curve rather than a straight line. In the northern hemisphere, things deflect to the right, and in the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - First to bust a long-standing myth: The rotation of the earth and the Coriolis effect have no impact on what direction your toilet or swimming pool drains. They do, however, ...

When multi-joint reaching movements are made within a rotating reference frame, additional interaction torques are generated in the form of Coriolis forces. Coriolis forces are a function of the cross ...

In honor of World Ocean Day, June 8th, we’re resurfacing a few features celebrating some of the many ways in which the ocean connects us as surfers. To picture the Coriolis effect, imagine two kids ...

As you may have noticed while tracking a hurricane on the news, storms in the Northern Hemisphere spin counterclockwise, while those in the Southern Hemisphere spin clockwise. Why do storms spin in ...

What is a fake force? Let me illustrate with an example. Suppose you want to use Newtonian mechanics. You know - where the net force is the rate a which the momentum changes with time? Or maybe you ...

In the century or so after Copernicus proposed the modern view of the Solar System, theologians and scientists lined up to criticise the theory. Chief among them was Giovanni Battista Riccioli, an ...

Despite what you may have heard, it doesn’t make water go down the drain one direction or the other. But it does have an effect: The Coriolis Effect can turn ships off course and change the weather. I ...

The Coriolis Effect pushes objects clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere. And yet hurricanes spin in exactly the opposite direction. Why? Yesterday we ...