In 1993, the University of Toronto’s Stephen Morris and his collaborators discovered that chaotic spirals would spontaneously form in a large-aspect-ratio Rayleigh-Bénard convection system. Mary de Bruyn, Morris’s sister, incorporated the spirals in a knitting pattern, which you can find at Spiral Defect Chaos in Knitting.
Thanks to the UX15 Installation webcams, you can watch workers install the five-story-high ATLAS detector in the UX15 cavern at CERN. When the Large Hadron Collider comes on line next year, ATLAS will explore the physics frontier at 14 TeV.
Columbia University was an early leader in the development of computers and computation. Wallace Eckert (shown here) was among the first scientists to solve complex problems with punch-card machines. You can learn more about Eckert and his fellow pioneers at Columbia University Computing History.
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