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Turbulence

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Issue 015

Turbulence

“The French mathematician Jean Leray is said to have found inspiration by spending hours watching the Seine eddy past the Pont-Neuf bridge…...”

Chapter one
A Thousand Words
Chapter two
Body Works
Chapter three
Survival
Chapter four
Beginnings
Chapter five
Wind & Water
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Few materials are as fascinating as spider silk. It’s stronger than steel, flexible rather than brittle, and light enough to float on the breeze. And vibrations in webs tell spiders,…
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Every day on Canada’s Atlantic coast, just northeast of Maine, a gargantuan amount of water rushes through rocky cliffs into and out of the Bay of Fundy. With currents typically reaching…
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A common enemy befouls surgeons, plumbers, and sailors alike: slime. In each of their professions, they wage ceaseless war against biofouling—layers of living organisms that stick around…
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