BECAUSE of the effect of the Earth's rotation, an athlete running anti-clockwise will have a slight advantage, resulting in a faster time. In the Southern Hemisphere, this effect is reversed but, as ...

A subpolar gyre is a large-scale ocean current system located at high latitudes created by a persistent region of low atmospheric pressure. These gyres circulate water in a cyclonic direction – ...

FARGO — It is a commonly held notion that toilets, when flushed, all make a counter-clockwise vortex in the Northern Hemisphere and spin the opposite way south of the equator. Although this is loosely ...