17 results for “wind”
Planets & the Solar System
The Sun
wind, a stream of particles racing outward at hundreds of kilometres per second. The wind fills
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Planet Earth
Weather and Climate
winds of the tropics, the westerlies of the middle latitudes where most of the world's people
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Planets & the Solar System
Mars
wind whips into storms that occasionally engulf the entire globe for weeks. Giants of rock Because
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Plants & Fungi
Flowers and Pollination
wind in enormous quantities and hope; grasses, pines, oaks and birches do this, which is why hay fever
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Matter, Energy & Physics
Electricity and Magnetism
Wind a wire into a coil and pass a current through it and you have an electromagnet
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Space & the Universe
Galaxies and the Milky Way
wind the arms up within a few rotations. Instead they are thought to be slow-moving
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Plants & Fungi
Trees and Forests
wind, drought, a chainsaw. Protected from those, some can go on almost indefinitely, because the growing
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Planets & the Solar System
Uranus and Neptune
winds are the fastest known, screaming around the planet at up to 2,100 kilometres per hour
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Planets & the Solar System
Comets, Asteroids and Pluto
wind, so a comet leaving the Sun travels tail-first. The European Rosetta spacecraft orbited Comet
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The Human Body
Digestion
wind comes from, and short fatty acids that feed the gut lining and may influence everything
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Planets & the Solar System
Jupiter
Winds at the boundaries blow at up to 600 kilometres per hour, in opposite directions on either
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Planets & the Solar System
Saturn
Winds at the equator are nonetheless ferocious, up to 1,800 kilometres per hour. Every twenty
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Planet Earth
The Atmosphere
wind blow: air flows from where there is more of it to where there is less
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Space & the Universe
Nebulae
winds carve the cloud into pillars and bubbles, and within a few million years they blow
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Animals
Animal Migration
wind farms and glass towers kill birds; the forests where monarchs winter are logged. Climate change
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Planet Earth
Inside the Earth
wind, the stream of charged particles from the Sun that would otherwise erode the atmosphere over
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Planet Earth
The Oceans
Winds drag the surface into great circulating currents, the Gulf Stream carrying warm Caribbean water across
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