By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today. With the death of Lord Kelvin on the 17th of ...

Good theory often works beyond its applicability limits. Lord Kelvin was a remarkable scientist, making many discoveries but even he would surely be surprised to find that his theory - originally ...

By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas ... derived from sedimentary geology.” Kelvin.

Lord Kelvin’s Thunderstorm is build around the concept of water droplets falling through inductors. Two streams of water fall from small holes in reservoirs at the top. Those streams fall ...