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Sea Monkeys Help Scientists Rewrite a Rule of Turbulence

Original: Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How to Rewrite a Rule of Turbulence https://www.quantamagazine.org/sea-monkeys-show-scientis

Brine shrimp, commonly sold as sea monkeys, have shown researchers how their collective swimming churns water in ways that overturn long-held assumptions about turbulence. The tiny crustaceans' swarm movements create flows far stronger than expected at their scale, prompting scientists to reconsider a rule describing how turbulence fades in fluids. The findings could influence how mixing is modeled in oceans and other natural systems.

Why now: A new Quanta Magazine article on an unexpected physics discovery involving sea monkeys is circulating among science readers.

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• Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How to Rewrite a Rule of Turbulence https://www.quantamagazine.org/sea-monkeys-show-scientists-how-to-rewrite-a-rule-of-turbulence-20261002/ # HackerNews # Tech # Science · hackernews@robot.villas · 4

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