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 ...

It’s a popular example of the “Mandela effect,” or a collective false memory. And while some people may laugh and move on, others spend years searching for an explanation. There is a shirt currently ...

It affects ocean currents, weather patterns, and even the direction planes fly. The Coriolis effect has real impacts, but it’s actually just an “apparent force” that causes moving objects to be ...

Most of our weather comes from a force that doesn't actually exist. It just looks that way because we're standing on a rotating, spherical planet. You may have even heard of the coriolis effect before ...

The simplest definition of wind is air in motion. Wind is generated by uneven pressure in the atmosphere, which is caused by uneven heating by the Sun, land, and oceans. The air closest to the ground ...

For the second time in history, Hurricane Humberto has the opportunity to create an atmospheric phenomenon more commonly seen in the Pacific basin known as the Fujiwhara Effect. When two tropical ...

Tropical Storm Humberto and Invest 94L could merge in the Atlantic, potentially sparking a rare Fujiwhara effect forecasters say could considerably alter a storm's track, with communities unaware a ...

Behavioral economists note that spending increases when asset values rise, known as the wealth effect. Housing asset increases often trigger a stronger wealth effect than stock market surges.

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging from the minutiae of everyday life to absurd astronomical hypotheticals. To ...