The Coriolis effect happens because of the Earth’s rotation. This force makes things travel in a curve rather than a straight line. In the northern hemisphere, things deflect to the right, and in the ...

During Sunday's Superb Owl, there were some great tweets looking at science with some type of connection to football. Here is one that got me thinking: A 50-yard field goal in MetLife stadium will ...

In honor of World Ocean Day, June 8th, we’re resurfacing a few features celebrating some of the many ways in which the ocean connects us as surfers. To picture the Coriolis effect, imagine two kids ...

Have you ever wondered why big storms spin like pinwheels instead of sliding straight across the Earth? Or why air and ocean currents don’t just travel in straight lines across the planet? Well, ...

With football fresh on our minds, this week’s weather question is: Can Coriolis Force affect the path of a football? The short answer is yes. When a football player kicks a field goal in a north-south ...

What is a fake force? Let me illustrate with an example. Suppose you want to use Newtonian mechanics. You know - where the net force is the rate a which the momentum changes with time? Or maybe you ...

Greg Kestin: What's going on here? Every time I throw the ball straight, it seems to bend to the side. No matter what I throw, no matter how straight I throw it, the ball seems to be curving. Maybe it ...

Despite what you may have heard, it doesn’t make water go down the drain one direction or the other. But it does have an effect: The Coriolis Effect can turn ships off course and change the weather. I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Discover how the Coriolis effect shapes weather patterns across the globe, including ocean currents and a hurricane’s spin. The ...