For atmospheric scientists, snowflake morphology helps determine how the flakes descend through the turbulent atmosphere. Now, using a custom-made snowflake-tracking apparatus installed at a ski resort, Tim Garrett, Eric Pardyjak, and Dhiraj Singh at the University of Utah have amassed a unique data set of the shapes, masses, and accelerations of a half-million flakes. Their analysis hints at an unexpected simplicity in the physics that underlies the motion of solid precipitation.
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Hints of Elegance in the Physics Governing Snowfall, Physics Today
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This Bizarre Star Could Become One of the Strongest Magnets in the Universe, Scientific American
Magnetars possess magnetic fields that are trillions of times stronger than those of ordinary stars. Flatiron Institute astrophysicist Christopher White comments on the work being done to pin down possible pathways to a magnetar.
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