Science

The Scientific American article A Simple Twist of Thermodynamics Could Lead to Greener Refrigeration by Sophie Bushwick (1/21/2020) reports about the Science paper Torsional refrigeration by twisted, coiled, and supercoiled fibers by Run Wang et. el. (10/11/2019), which is behind a paywall (the graph here is from that paper). From …

The NASA Vital Signs of the Planet article Seal Takes Ocean Heat Transport Data to New Depth by Esprit Smith (12/4/2019) explains (note photo from the article): But how the current transfers heat, particularly vertically from the top layer of the ocean to the bottom layers and vice versa, is …