If you have a shiny new convection oven on your counter, or a wall oven that includes convection capabilities, you may be thinking, “Cool! But what does the convection setting do?” That’s a good ...

Findings from a table-top experiment have revealed that the primary driver of a type of fluid flow called solutal convection has been overlooked. What's more, once this driver is accounted for, it ...

WASHINGTON, August 4, 2020 -- Tea drinkers have been saying it for years. Water heated in a microwave just isn't the same. Typically, when a liquid is being warmed, the heating source -- a stove, for ...

Everyone knows the saying “heat rises,” right? Why does heat rise? Let’s use the example of water in a pot. Take a pot full of cold water and place it on a stove. Turn the heat on, and the water near ...

An international team of astronomers has successfully imaged the surface of the geriatric star π1 Gruis, revealing enormous convection cells that cycle material between the interior and surface of the ...

Physicists in the US have performed a simple table-top experiment that could provide new insight into why the Earth’s continents drift apart and then move back together over several hundred-million ...

When Yu "Alex" Liang started graduate school at The University of Texas at Austin, he was tasked with running a straight-forward experiment to collect data on a well-understood phenomenon in fluid ...