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Credit: Pixabay from Pexels Studies by applied mathematicians at the University of Surrey are helping to identify ways of reducing how much liquids slosh around inside tanks. Baffles slow down the movement of fluid by diverting its flow. The research found that two or three porous baffles dividing a tank calms sloshing better than a single separator, but the…

New measurements of the orbit of Saturn's smallest major moon suggests there's a big secret lurking beneath its icy crust.Mimas, whose cratered surface bears more than a passing resemblance to the Death Star from Star Wars, only makes sense if there's a liquid ocean swirling around 20 to 30 kilometers (12 to 19 miles) below the ice.The new analysis, led by astronomer Valery Lainey of the Paris Observatory, is the latest in a growing body of evidence of a liquid ocean hiding inside the little moon.That means that Mimas…

Photo: Joe McKendrickLast month, it was disclosed that the National Security Agency re-awarded a massive and hotly contested cloud computing contract worth up to $10 billion to Amazon Web Services.  One can assume a large government agency procuring $10 billion of cloud services has quite a bit of leverage over the terms of the agreement. However, for mainstream companies, the opposite may be true -- the cloud provider holds many of the cards, in a legal or contractual sense, with terms that may come back to bite the…