Bill Bottke, a planetary dynamicist at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado, thinks the chemical divide holds other clues to the timing and formation of the planets. (sciencemag.org)
And that drag force is probably much less significant than the drag the ship's hull experiences moving through water, says Jeff Eldredge, a fluid dynamicist at the University of California, Los Angeles. (sciencemag.org)
Raymond Pierrehumbert, a climate dynamicist at the University of Chicago, kindly offered to write a guest editorial to further clarify what we do and don't know about tropical glacier retreat. (realclimate.org)