“Depending on how the shrimp was oriented relative to the interaction of these flows, the energy flux seemed to change direction.”

The Quanta Podcast · Sea Monkeys, Jupiter, and the Mystery of Turbulence

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Inserted brine shrimp into the magnet-driven two-dimensional flow and observed that when shrimp swam in certain orientations they flipped the direction of energy flux

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