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Now, researchers at the University of Greifswald and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, Germany, have shown that water tornadoes can also provide a surprisingly good analog ...

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Scientists at the University of Western Ontario, Industrial University of Santander in Colombia, and the United States ...

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