Von Karman vortices are spectacular in satellite imagery, are more common than they may sound, and, at least in one case, they have proven to be damaging. As a meteorologist, one of my favorite ...

A collaborative effort between researchers in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany has led to the discovery of a third type of ...

Everyday experience tells us that light reflected from a perfectly flat mirror will give us the correct image without any ...

Tampere University researchers found that light beams distort when reflected, revealing material properties. Their work on ...

In 1921, he wrote a paper describing the motions of "vortices" in water. Water vortices, such as whirlpools, are little water whirls that spin around.

Earth's ozone layer holes over polar regions, where the stratospheric ozone level is significantly depleted, have been a ...

Tornadoes and hurricanes are both destructive storms that are often compared to one another. But are they really that alike?

For thirty years, scientists have theorized that it should be possible to create electromagnetic “focused doughnuts” not topologically dissimilar from the vortex rings that form naturally in ...

"So we proposed a model to explain this phenomenon." Scientists have previously proposed that "avalanches" of "superfluid vortices" — the highly volatile ingredients of neutron stars trying to ...

Fueled by warm, moist ocean air, hurricanes – with their strong wind shear near the ground – can create an unstable ...

The silkworm moth (Bombyx mori) is an insect that no longer flies due to domestication. The males use their antennae to detect pheromones emitted by females and respond very acutely, and have been ...

Dartmouth’s new president took over last year with fresh ideas about higher education. October 7 put them, and her, to the ...