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Does the direction water rotates down the drain depend on which hemisphere you're in? Debunking the...
The Conversation en Español via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe idea that the Coriolis force influences how water drains frequently appears in popular culture...
Fact Check: No Hurricane Has Been Known To Cross the Equator?
Snopes via Yahoo News· 6 months agoScreengrab/Reddit Claim: No hurricane has been known to cross the equator. Rating: That hurricanes...
Why don't hurricanes form at the equator?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHere we see a huge hurricane in a satellite image against the blue ocean background. The fierce winds of a hurricane are known as tropical cyclones in...
It’s heating up, SLO County. Look for warm but windy conditions this week
San Luis Obispo Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoHistorically, spring along the Northern and Central California coast is notorious for vigorous and...
Fact check: Ample evidence the Earth is round and rotating, contrary to persistent social media...
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe claim: Earth isn't curved and doesn't rotate Humans discovered the curvature and rotation of the Earth thousands of years ago, dating back to ancient Greece. Since then, scientists have ...
Why doesn’t the Pacific Northwest get hurricanes? We asked a meteorologist
Idaho Statesman McClatchy Articles via AOL· 2 years agoWhen Category 4 Hurricane Ian plowed into southwest Florida on Wednesday, it became the sixth...
Interesting Science Facts Confirmed and Debunked
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 6 months agoWhen reeling off dubious facts (like lemmings plunging off cliffs en masse), there's no better retort to a skeptical audience than calmly explaining that...
How the monsoon develops every year and visits India
Quartz· 2 years agoEvery year, around the first week of June, a vast expanse of roiling grey clouds advances from the Arabian sea and makes landfall in Kerala to the tune...
Fact check: Flat Earth claim misunderstands Earth's motion, shape, gravity
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe claim: Earth isn't curved or moving; air pressure couldn't exist 'without a container' Some social media users are sharing a meme that claims to present evidence that Earth is flat instead ...
Anti-cyclonic whirlwinds seen on video towering into sunny sky
AccuWeather via AOL· 2 years agoIt was a mostly sunny day in Florence, Alabama, and a youth baseball league was outside practicing when a tornadolike whirlwind seemed to appear out of nowhere, sweeping across the infield as ...