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  • FIFA World Cup 2026 in United States, Canada and Mexico the ‘most polluting ever’, claims report

    FIFA World Cup 2026 in United States, Canada and Mexico the ‘most polluting ever’, claims report

    Next year’s Fifa World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico is set to be “the most climate-damaging” in the tournament’s history, according to new research by environmentalists.

    Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) has calculated the greenhouse gas emissions attributable to the tournament, which has been expanded from 32 to 48 teams.

    “Driven by a high reliance on air travel and significant increase in the quantity of matches” the campaign group claims the expanded 2026 World Cup will generate more than nine million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.

    SGR says that is almost double the average for the last four World Cup finals, and significantly more than Qatar 2022, which is estimated to have had a footprint of up to 5.25 million tonnes of CO2e.

    It says the predicted 2026 total is “equivalent to nearly 6.5 million average British cars being driven for an entire year” – and will make it the most polluting tournament ever staged.

    Next year’s World Cup will be the first to be held across an entire continent and have 40 more matches (104) than before, although all will be played at existing stadia.

    In their original bid book, the three prospective host nations for the 2026 tournament revealed a preliminary estimate of 3.6 million tonnes of CO2e, although at that stage it was expected to stage just 80 matches. They also said the bid “hopes the 2026 World Cup will establish new standards for environmental sustainability in sport and deliver measurable environmental benefits”.

    Fifa has been approached for comment.

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  • Samsung Partners With Warner Bros. and DC Studios To Deliver ‘Super Big’ Superman Experience – Samsung Global Newsroom

    Samsung Partners With Warner Bros. and DC Studios To Deliver ‘Super Big’ Superman Experience – Samsung Global Newsroom

    Partnership offers fans new ways to experience the iconic Super Hero’s release on the big screen through digital and in-person activations

     

    Samsung Electronics today announced a global partnership with Warner Bros. and DC Studios to celebrate the latest “Superman” film with a series of fan activations, Superman-themed video content and limited-edition digital artworks from DC Comics via Samsung Art Store.

     

    “Samsung is committed to creating a richer and more meaningful entertainment experience,” said Hun Lee, Executive Vice President of the Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics. “Through collaborations with leading creative studios and artists, we continue to help people engage more deeply with the stories and character they love, whether in the theater or at home.”

     

    “Superman,” the first film in DC Studios’ new cinematic universe, written, directed and produced by James Gunn, hits theaters worldwide starting July 9. To mark the release, Samsung is launching a global campaign with the tagline “It’s not just big. It’s super big,” spotlighting a range of campaign video content celebrating the original Super Hero and bringing the excitement of the film to audiences across digital platforms, retail locations and public spaces.

     

    In London, the campaign will come to life through a series of Daily Planet-themed newsstand kiosks, appearing at high-traffic locations such as The Shard and Kings Cross Station.

     

    Fans can also pick up limited-edition Superman-themed items, receive exclusive gifts and take part in a global social media challenge by sharing their event photos or videos for a chance to win super prizes, including a 98” Samsung TV.

     

    Interactive activations will appear at major malls across Asia — including Malaysia, Vietnam and Korea — where fans can explore Superman-themed photo booths, immersive pop-up displays and hands-on product experiences.

     

     

    Additionally, Samsung Art Store, the leading digital art platform on Samsung Art TVs, is featuring a limited-time 10-piece Superman digital art collection from DC Comics free to users from July 1 through August 31. Available on The Frame as well as 2025 QLED and Neo QLED models,1 the collection brings Superman’s heroic legacy into the home and gives fans a whole new way to enjoy Superman-inspired art.

     

    Samsung’s Super Big TV lineup includes 98” 100” 115” Class options across Neo QLED and Crystal UHD models.2 With expansive screens, stunning picture quality and AI-powered enhancements that deliver smoother images and deeper contrast, Samsung aims to deliver a grander home entertainment experience.

     

    For more information, visit www.samsung.com.

     

     

    About Superman
    DC Studios presents a Troll Court Entertainment/The Safran Company Production, A James Gunn Film, Superman, which will be in theaters and IMAX® July 9 2025, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

     

     

    1 Samsung Art TV includes MICRO LED, The Frame, The Frame Pro, Neo QLED 8K, Neo QLED and QLED models starting from Q7F and above.
    2 Product availability vary by region.

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  • Aston has added more power to its overpowered 2dr: meet the 671bhp Vantage S

    Aston has added more power to its overpowered 2dr: meet the 671bhp Vantage S

    Aston Martin has history in adding an ‘S’ to mark the most bombastic versions of the Vantage, only… they’ve rarely been this bombastic. Because this new Aston Martin Vantage S is a more powerful version of a car that already came stuffed with power.

    Incredibly, this ‘baby’ Aston Martin Vantage S – an entry-level Aston, for goodness’ sake – now develops a whopping 671bhp finely-tuned Anglo-German horsies, up from the not-at-all-regular car’s 656bhp.

    Six hundred and seventy one! That sound you hear is the Ferrari Amalfi having a meltdown. Not least because there’s 590lb ft of torque on offer to melt the S’s phat rears.

    Aston hasn’t specified exactly how it has extracted an additional fifteen horsepowers from the AMG-sourced 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8, but that unit’s got a good set of lungs on it. So unbelievably, it’s actually a very modest increase.

    Aston reckons 671bhp arrives at 6,000rpm, while that unchanged torque figure is available between 3k-6k. It’s made a few tweaks across the board as you’d expect, including slight alterations to the throttle map, pedal weight and launch control.

    So it’s now a full 0.1s quicker than before – 0-60mph taking just 3.3s (0-62mph in 3.4s). The 0-124mph dash is done in 10.1s, while top speed remains the same 202mph. Basically, it’s a bit faster.

    And pointier. The Bilstein ‘DTX’ adaptive dampers have been tweaked to offer what Aston claims is “increased front-end feel and response”, while the rear spring aid stiffness has been lowered “to balance compression and rebound for improved low-speed ride quality”. Basically, they’ve backed it off so you don’t bounce all over the high street.

    There’s a 10 per cent reduction in the eight-speed gearbox mount’s stiffness, the rear subframes are now mounted directly to the bonded aluminium body as opposed to via rubber bushes, and camber, toe and caster settings have all been “finessed”. And lo: it’s pointier.

    Naturally an ‘S’ requires additional visual cues, so this new one gets a set of centrally mounted bonnet blades, lots of ‘S’ badging, and a full-width rear spoiler offering an additional 44kg of rear downforce when on a closed road at 202mph. The underbody’s been treated to ‘updates’ too, to allow a full 111kg of downforce at the S’s vmax.

    Aston’s slotted special 21in alloys and bronzed brake calipers onto this Vantage S, filled it with Alcantara and leather and carbon fibre inlays, embroidered ‘S’ and Aston’s wings logos inside, and provided the option of a red or silver anodised finish to the rotary drive control. Other options are available, but none include turning up outside a Ferrari showroom and donuting ‘671bhp’ into the car park. Yours from around £170k.

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  • Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday of 2025 with nothing hacked • The Register

    Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday of 2025 with nothing hacked • The Register

    For the first time this year, Microsoft has released a Patch Tuesday bundle with no exploited security problems, although one has been made public already, and there are ten critical flaws to fix.

    July’s software flaw fix package includes 130 patches with none exploited and only one earning a CVSS score of over nine – CVE-2025-47981. This critical issue comes with a 9.8 score and breaks Microsoft’s Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation Mechanism (SPNEGO) security protocols with a heap-based buffer overflow that would allow remote code execution.

    Of the other nine new critical issues, four are in Office, which last month had a major patching update and gets more this month. In July’s fixes, four flaws allow for remote code execution in the Office bundle. In all, Office gets 16 patches this week, but those four should be on the list of first to fix.

    • CVE-2025-49695 – An ugly use-after-free issue that is thankfully limited to a user with local access.
    • CVE-2025-49696 – Another locally exploitable issue that has a nasty twist.
    • CVE-2025-49697 – A nasty buffer overflow issue that earns a CVSS 8.4 rating.
    • CVE-2025-49702 – This type confusion requires a user being tricked into opening a malicious file, but that’s not too hard.

    CVE-2025-49696 is particularly worrisome, since it can be exploited via the Preview Pane in Office, meaning no serious user action is required. It allows the combination of an out-of-bounds read and heap-based buffer overflow for an attack that requires no authentication to carry off.

    If you’re running an AMD processor, there are a couple of fixes that should also be on the priority list, since Redmond has highlighted them in the roundup. The early EPYC and Ryzen chips are all listed as needing an update, but the chances of exploitation are less likely. Microsoft also included a previously exploited flaw in the Chromium engine, CVE-2025-6554, that was released earlier this month.

    One of the other critical bugs is in SQL, the most serious of three patched in Microsoft’s database platform. CVE-2025-49717 allows remote code execution using a buffer overflow, but Redmond rates it as less likely for exploitation since exploitation would take a complex attack, albeit with no user interaction required.

    There were 16 additional flaws fixed in Windows Routing and Remote Access Service, all considered at low risk of exploitation, but which still need to be patched. There are also five fixes for Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption system, four of them listed by Redmond as more likely to be exploited, which if used improperly could be used to harvest data without the usual security checks.

    And the best of the rest

    As ever, Adobe has been piggybacking off Microsoft’s patching session with a bundle of patches, the most serious of which are for ColdFusion, and Experience Manager Forms. These two applications need to be updated as a priority, Adobe said.

    The former includes 13 patches, five of them ranked as critical, including a CVSS 9.3 issue that would allow data examination by an attacker. In the case of Experience Manager Forms, there’s just a single flaw to be fixed, but it’s a CVSS 9.8 that would allow code to be executed on a target system. Experience Manager Screens also picks up a couple of important patches.

    As for the rest of Adobe’s offerings, unusually there were no patches for either Reader or Photoshop this month. However, FrameMaker got 15 patches (13 of them critical) and Illustrator got ten patches today, including seven criticals.

    Elsewhere, there were six critical flaws to get fixed in InDesign, and three criticals for InCopy, all with a CVSS 7.8 score. There are also three patches for Substance 3D Viewer, including a single critical fix. After Effects picks up a couple of important updates, as does Dimension, and there’s a singleton apiece for Audition, Substance 3D Stager, and Connect.

    In another unusual instance this month, Google released no Android security updates. That might be explained by the fact that Android Version 16 was released last month and contains a lot of fixes – although non-Pixel users are going to have to wait until OEMs catch up.

    SAP was happy to fill the gap in admins’ lives, however, with 27 new security updates, and four updated ones. The most serious, scoring a perfect 10 on the CVSS ranking, is a grab-bag of issues with SAP Supplier Relationship Management (Live Auction Cockpit), and there’s a CVSS 9.9 issue with Code Injection vulnerability in SAP S/4HANA and SAP SCM that needs a patch. These are two of the six critical fixes SAP issued. ®

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  • Generic Cancer Drugs Found Failing Quality Standards in Routine Testing – geneonline.com

    1. Generic Cancer Drugs Found Failing Quality Standards in Routine Testing  geneonline.com
    2. Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations  DW
    3. Criminal failures in global pharma regulation  Pakistan Today
    4. One in Six Cancer Medications in Sub-Saharan Africa Found to Fail Quality Standards  geneonline.com
    5. Medicines that hinder rather than help healing  Business Recorder

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  • Trump delays tariffs as the rest of the world plays hardball

    Trump delays tariffs as the rest of the world plays hardball

    Getty Images US President Donald Trump wearing a blue suit and a white cap with USA on itGetty Images

    Donald Trump’s White House had grandly promised “90 deals in 90 days” after partially pausing the process of levying what the US president called “reciprocal” tariffs.

    In reality, there won’t even be nine deals done by the time we reach Trump’s first cut-off date on 9 July.

    The revealing thing here, the poker “tell” if you like, is the extension of the deadline from Wednesday until 1 August, with a possibility of further extensions – or delays – to come.

    From the US perspective, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says all focus has been on the 18 countries that are responsible for 95% of America’s trade deficit.

    The jaunty letters being sent from the US to its trading partners this week are simply a reincarnation of that infamous White House “Liberation Day” blue board.

    The rates are basically the same as were first revealed on 2 April. The infamous equation, which turned out to use a measure of the size of the deficit as a proxy for “the sum of all trade cheating” lives on, in a form.

    This is all being announced without the market turmoil seen earlier this year because of this additional delay.

    Financial markets believe in rolling delays, in the idea of TACO, that Trump Always Chickens Out – although they may embolden foot-dragging on all sides that lead to a renewed crisis.

    However, the real takeaway here has been the Trump administration’s inability to strike deals. The letters are an admission of failure.

    The White House may be playing hardball, but so are most other nations.

    Japan and South Korea were singled out for the first two letters, which effectively further blow up their trade deals with the US.

    The Japanese have done little to hide their fury at the US approach.

    Its finance minister even hinted at using its ownership of the world’s biggest stockpile of US government debt – basically the biggest banker of America’s debts – as a source of potential leverage.

    The dynamic from April has not really changed.

    The rest of the world sees that markets punish the US when a trade war looks real, when American retailers warn the White House of higher prices and empty shelves.

    And there is still a plausible court case working its way through the system that could render the tariffs illegal.

    But the world is now also starting to see the numerical impact of an upended global trade system.

    The value of the dollar has declined 10% this year against a number of currencies.

    At Bessent’s confirmation hearing, he said that the likely increase in the value of the dollar would help mitigate any inflationary impact of tariffs.

    The opposite has happened.

    Trade numbers are starting to shift too. There was massive stockpiling before tariffs, there have been more recent significant falls.

    Meanwhile, Chinese exports to the US have fallen by 9.7% so far this year.

    But China’s shipments to the rest of the world are up 6%. This includes a 7.4% rise in exports to the UK, a 12.2% increase to the 10 members of the ASEAN alliance and 18.9% rise to Africa.

    The numbers are volatile, but consistent with what might be predicted.

    Revenues from tariffs are starting to pour into the US Treasury coffers, with record receipts in May.

    As the US builds a tariff wall around itself, the rest of the world is likely to trade more with each other – just look the recent economic deals between the UK and India, and the EU and Canada.

    It is worth noting that the effective tariff rate being imposed by the US on the rest of the world is now about 15%, having been between 2% and 4% for the past 40 years. This is before the further changes in these letters.

    The market reaction is calm for now. It might not stay that way.

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  • Review | Oprah’s book club pick ‘Culpability’ taps into our AI anxiety – The Washington Post

    1. Review | Oprah’s book club pick ‘Culpability’ taps into our AI anxiety  The Washington Post
    2. Book Marks reviews of Culpability by Bruce Holsinger  Book Marks
    3. AP Entertainment SummaryBrief at 9:27 a.m. EDT  Citizen Tribune
    4. Oprah Winfrey’s Latest Book Club Pick Delves Into AI Ethics  Inc.com
    5. Oprah Just Chose a ‘Shocking’ New Book Club Pick  AOL.com

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  • Why Kylie Jenner’s Plastic Surgery Transparency Could Be Harmful

    Why Kylie Jenner’s Plastic Surgery Transparency Could Be Harmful

    Kylie Jenner and Khloe Kardashian are talking about the work they’ve had done. But is radical transparency around this helpful?

    Kylie and Kendall Jenner in formal gowns leaving the wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez.
    Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner are spotted leaving a hotel in Venice, Italy. Photo by Florian Poitout/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images)

    Have you ever wondered what kind of cosmetic surgeries the Kardashians and Jenners have had? They’ll go one further and tell you not only what they had done, but why and who did it.

    Kris Jenner dropped the name of her cosmetic surgeon, while her daughter Kylie made a now-deleted Instagram comment about the details of her breast augmentation.

    But is radical transparency around plastic surgery going to help set more realistic beauty standards?

    “On the one hand, this could have a very protective effect by people realizing that comparisons are not appropriate, that people don’t actually look like that naturally, and that people don’t age like that,” said Rachel Rodgers, an associate professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University. “However, my suspicion is that the effect is probably going to go the other way.”

    Instead, celebrities offering the exact “recipe” for how they got their appearance might inspire people to go to their surgeon to request the same, hoping for a similar look.

    “It may not give the same results, but it probably will participate in this converging aesthetic,” said Rodgers, who studies the socio-cultural influences on body image and eating concerns. “It’s likely that the disappointment will be in that it hasn’t produced the psychological and social results that people were looking for.”

    Portrait of Rachel Rodgers wearing a black top and two necklaces in front of a dark red background.
    Is radical transparency around plastic surgery a good thing? Associate professor Rachel Rodgers says she’d rather see people skip it altogether. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

    It’s no surprise that members of the blended Kardashian and Jenner clan have had plastic surgery, said Rodgers. But the recent level of honesty they have in disclosing it is new. 

    Not only did Kylie Jenner share the exact type of breast augmentation she had and the doctor (silicone implants, moderate profile, half under the muscle with Garth Fisher), but her sister Khloe Kardashian recently outlined all her surgeries in an Instagram comment, from her nose job to her salmon sperm facials.

    Kardashian makes a point that her look is not just plastic surgery. While full-on cosmetic procedures are on the rise, so are minimally invasive ones like Botox and fillers. Rodgers said this may be in part due to how minimally invasive some of these procedures are and how they can easily be accessed. 

    Many medical offices offer these services and for a low cost, Rodgers added. As celebrities talk about their specific work, Rodgers said it’s likely some practitioners will capitalize on this as a way to advertise what they can do, further enticing people to go under the knife or needle.

    But while this conversation normalizes treatment, it may not be for the better.

    “It’s very dangerous, personally, not only from a physical health standpoint, because things can go wrong, but also from a psychological and a social perspective,” Rodgers said. “People are being marketed that they need to engage in what essentially are medical procedures, even if they’re sold in sort of this fluffy, ‘let’s have a Botox party’ casing. To me, this is a very detrimental trend.”

    “This is particularly unfortunate because most of the people who obtain these procedures are women, and that it’s just generally adding to the number of ways in which women are expected to spend their time and money in order to curate their appearance to some unrealistic standard,” she added.

    Rather than speaking out about their surgery, Rodgers said she’d rather see celebrities resist the urge to get any work done, as well as regulation around the advertising and administration of cosmetic procedures.

    “A better thing would be for celebrities to resist the pressure and to be transparent about that,” she said. “I would love to hear people speaking out about the fact they have not had this work done and why, I think the reality is a larger cultural shift (is needed). That’s incredibly difficult, because for somebody who works in an industry that is almost entirely appearance-based, it may end up being a choice between your career or not. More broadly, if the entertainment industry could feature more older people across the board who actually look older, that would be very helpful, for a start.” 

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  • SJC meeting summoned after seven-month hiatus

    SJC meeting summoned after seven-month hiatus


    ISLAMABAD:

    After a break of almost seven months, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi has summoned a meeting of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) on July 12.

    The SJC is a constitutional body empowered to proceed against judges of the superior courts on charges of misconduct.

    Currently, CJP Afridi serves as its chairman. Other members include Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice Munib Akhtar, Lahore High Court Chief Justice Alia Neelum and Sindh High Court Chief Justice Junaid Ghaffar.

    The council is presently examining various complaints of misconduct against superior court judges.

    During its previous meeting in December last year, the Council discussed proposed amendments to the Code of Conduct for Judges under Article 209(8) of the Constitution, as well as revisions to the Supreme Judicial Council Procedure of Enquiry, 2005.

    A committee headed by Justice Munib Akhtar was constituted to prepare the proposed amendments to both the Code of Conduct and the enquiry procedure.

    It is expected that the committee will present its proposals at the upcoming meeting.

    Last year, six Islamabad High Court (IHC) judges had sought guidance from the SJC regarding interference by executive agencies in judicial functions.

    However, instead of taking up the matter within the SJC, then Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa initiated suo motu proceedings on the issue.

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  • Fresh Breakthroughs in Lagrangian Turbulence Math

    Fresh Breakthroughs in Lagrangian Turbulence Math

    A sneeze. Ocean currents. Smoke. What do these have in common? They’re instances of turbulence: unpredictable, chaotic, uneven fluid flows of fluctuating velocity and pressure. Though ubiquitous in nature, these flows remain somewhat of a mystery, theoretically and computationally.

    “Most flows that we encounter in nature are turbulent — it does not matter whether it is the flow outside the airplane that makes us fasten our seatbelts, or the flow in a small stream,” said UC Santa Barbara mathematics professor Björn Birnir. “Turbulence is difficult to understand because the mathematical models that describe it are nonlinear, stochastic and the solutions are unstable. This made it necessary to develop new theories to truly understand the nature of turbulence.”

    Fortunately, Birnir and Luiza Angheluta of the University of Oslo are getting us closer to being able to characterize turbulence, with an approach that captures some of the myriad complex phenomena that occur over the evolution of a turbulent flow. Their research is published in the journal Physical Review Research .

    ‘The most important unsolved problem’

    Described in 1964 by famed physicist Richard Feynmann as “the most important unsolved problem of classical physics,” turbulence has accumulated its fair share of laws and theories, as researchers over two centuries contributed valuable insights and approaches to the study of this highly complex phenomenon. However, because of its nonlinearity, general unpredictability and also its multi-scale nature, generating the math that holds true for everything from the tiniest fluctuation to the entire flow with all its interacting vortices and eddies has been one of the primary challenges of the field.

    This is particularly true of the turbulent flow called Lagrangian turbulence, where an observer follows the flow (as in an airplane). It starts by an initial ballistic flow (all particles stuck together and flowing in the same direction), goes through large Lagrangian vortices and later Eulerian turbulence (a homogeneous flow with smaller but more complex vortices).

    “There has been a lot of speculation,” said Birnir, who directs the Center for Complex and Nonlinear Science at UCSB. “The ballistic region has a certain scaling. The Lagrangian region has another scaling, and

    A simulation of Lagrangian turbulence, with a ballistic region on the right, superdiffusing into a Lagrangian region, followed by an Eulerian region and finally, according to the researchers, a region of “free eddies.”

    then it looked like it was going into this region where there was Eulerian scaling.” Each scaling regime contains the math that best describes the forces and unique phenomena in only that particular evolution of the turbulent flow. “So you are basically seeing three types of scalings but there was no theory behind it and there was in fact no proof of it.” Instead of becoming clearer, the study of turbulence had become more confusing, he added.

    While the ballistic and Eulerian flows have fairly well-established scaling laws, the region between them was relatively less understood.

    “Different scaling regions, in time, is one of the main characteristics of Lagrangian turbulence,” Birnir explained. Another unique characteristic is the Lagrangian framework’s approach, which is to follow the turbulence from the point of view of a particle — a “tracer” — within the flow, as opposed to from a stationary point outside the flow, as is the case with Eulerian turbulence, where the flow is more homogenous.

    Birnir and Angheluta investigated the statistical properties of a fully turbulent Lagrangian velocity field using a modeling framework called stochastic closure theory, which captures randomness as part of the system. They also used a set of relations called the Green-Kubo-Obukhov relations to characterize the effects of various forces on and conditions of the flow such as diffusion and viscosity, as well as the chaotic dynamics of the entire system.

    The result is a mathematical model that demonstrates the presence of a Lagrangian scaling regime in the “passover region” between ballistic flows and Eulerian turbulence, while also connecting the three scaling regimes as the turbulent flow evolves from its initial conditions through the ballistic region, as it superdiffuses into the chaotic, multi-scale fluctuations and flows of the Lagrangian region and transitions to the more homogenous Eulerian region. Additionally, the researchers identify a fourth region “free eddies” — free-floating, rapidly swirling vortices that are disconnected from the earlier turbulence. Their results, according to an introduction of their work in Physical Review Research, “show excellent agreement with Direct Navier-Stokes simulations.”

    This enhanced statistical understanding of Lagrangian turbulence will be useful for tackling real-world puzzles of turbulence, such as tracking ocean currents, and predicting weather patterns and how pollutants and airborne pathogens spread.

    “This gives us a little more foundation for calculating things like the spread of COVID and other aerosols,” said Birnir, who plans to write a biomedical paper to provide information on how to use this model to better calculate the infectiousness of diseases carried by airborne pathogens.

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