That curve is created by the Coriolis effect. You may have heard that it makes water in the bathtub spiral down the drain a certain way or that it determines the way a toilet flushes. That's ...

And why do they spin in the first place? The answer is a phenomenon called the Coriolis effect. NARRATOR: If you've ever watched the news during a hurricane or wintertime nor'easter, you've ...

In particular, a subtle influence from the rotation of the earth—the Coriolis effect or force—would have shifted all their shots by about half a mile. Decades earlier a Parisian scientist by ...