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 ...

“Clockwise” and “counterclockwise” refer to a sense of rotation around a center, when viewed from above. Don’t confuse those terms with the Coriolis deflection that, in the Northern Hemisphere, is ...

The cosmos loves irony. While trying to prove that the Earth is fixed in space, an Italian priest described something similar to the Coriolis effect – the slight deflection experienced by objects ...

The Sun’s uneven heating of the Earth induces horizontal pressure gradients that drive large‐scale winds. In the free atmosphere, where friction is negligible, a balance between the pressure gradient ...

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 ...

That hurricanes do not cross the equator is a claim that has spread online for years, and that’s because the concept on which this idea is based – the Coriolis Effect – is a complex one. Earth's ...

I recently read an article about a Navy SEAL sniper. The author lists possible variables that go into determining a shot, one of which is the rotation of the earth. How exactly does this affect a ...

It is an apparent force caused by the earth's rotation. The coriolis force is responsible for deflection of winds towards the right in the northern hemisphere and left in the southern hemisphere.