Let's flush out the truth in this VERIFY question. A few weeks ago, we verified a weather phenomenon called the coriolis effect, which makes tornadoes and hurricanes spin a certain direction in ...
The first thing I did at the Johannesburg airport was rush to the bathroom. No, no – not to pee, and not because I ate something disagreeable on the flight; this is not a story about what it's like to ...
It affects ocean currents, weather patterns, and even the direction planes fly. The Coriolis effect has real impacts, but it’s actually just an “apparent force” that causes moving objects to be ...