Physics archive for 2016

An Interview with 2016 Batchelor Prize winner Prof Raymond E. Goldstein

Jo Rennie | 11 August 2016

Watch an interview with Professor Raymond E. Goldstein

Swimming bacteria, sperm increase speed through ‘corridors’ of low viscosity fluid

Emil Venere | 5 January 2016

New research findings, published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, are yielding insights into the physics behind the swimming behavior of bacteria and spermatozoa that could lead to a better understanding of the mechanisms affecting fertility and formation of bacterial biofilms that foul everything from implantable medical devices to industrial pipes.

First multimedia PDF published in Journal of Plasma Physics

John ZuHone | 1 July 2016

In this blog post John ZuHone and Elke Roediger discuss their co-authored paper Cold fronts: probes of plasma astrophysics in galaxy clusters, the first article published as a multimedia pdf in the Journal of Plasma Physics.…