Assistant Professor Eric Edlund’s intermediate physics laboratory course is all about giving students opportunities to get hands-on experience in precise experimental measurement. That’s been tough to ...

As wind energy scales up, researchers study the fluid dynamics challenges. Twenty years ago, wind energy was mostly a niche industry that contributed less than 1% to the total electricity demand in ...

A technique for harvesting low-speed wind energy using anchored ionic droplets has been developed by researchers in China and the UK. The approach – which taps into winds that are too weak to drive a ...

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A hardy band of Czech wind tunnel enthusiasts hover and flip in a dazzling display of acrobats inside Prague’s Skydive Arena, in this video from the folks at Outrageous Acts of Science. The underlying ...