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Brown: Want the Secret to Less Painful Belly Flops?
November 07, 2023
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 7 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release:

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These researchers have the Answer

Experiments by a Brown-led research team investigated belly flop mechanics and found surprising insights about air-to-water impacts that could be useful for marine engineering applications.

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Anyone who's ever done a belly flop into a swimming pool knows it ends with a blunt-sounding spla . . .

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