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Six cyclones at the south pole of Jupiter, as captured by the infrared lens of the Juno probe in February 2017. Beautifully arranged and shaped like a rose cake. Source: NASA

The mystery of Jupiter's cyclones

They are powerful, they are the size of Australia and no one imagined them until a few years ago - what is the secret of the storms at the poles of the largest planet in the solar system?
Forecasting storms using soap bubbles. The color code indicates the intensity of the turbulence [courtesy of CNRS]

Can soap bubbles help predict the strength of storms?

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A Category 3 hurricane named Earl washed over the entire East Coast of the United States on September 2, 2010. This image was taken by the Helvin Terra satellite as the storm moved about 400 kilometers south of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

The hurricane stoppers / David Bailo

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

NASA took "before" and "after" images of the cyclone in Burma from space (MyLeopard)

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