Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, Vol. 147, No. 928 (Dec. 3, 1957), pp. 381-391 (11 pages) ...

Pressure gradient...sounds like an interesting combination of words right? So what is a pressure gradient and how does it affect you? First lets start by breaking down each word...Pressure: in this ...

A dopamine-induced mean pressure gradient of at least 20 mm Hg was significantly associated with arterial hypertension improvement after renal stenting, leading researchers to conclude that the ...

This segment originally appeared in today's edition of the Morning Brief newsletter. Sign up here to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. Pressure gradient is the ...

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A body moving through a fluid experiences a drag force, which is usually divided into two components: frictional drag, and pressure drag. Frictional drag comes from friction between the fluid and the ...

Those gusty winds bedeviling Northern California this week are a typical sign of seasonal transition as spring yields to summer, meteorologists said yesterday. Strong winds are the inevitable result ...

Do you know what causes wind? Well, broadly speaking it’s the sun... but more specifically, how the sun unevenly heats the Earth’s surface. That leads to areas of high and low pressure forming, and in ...

The same wave in the jet stream can lead to strong winds, blowing dust and fire danger in one region, while triggering a tornado outbreak and a blizzard in other regions. Windstorms can seem like they ...

A Dec. 4 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of Earth from space. Earth's atmosphere is labeled "pressurized gas," while outer space is labeled "infinite vacuum." A third label ...