If a drop of creamer falls from a spoon into a swirling cup of coffee, the whirlpool drags the drop into rotation. But what would happen if the coffee had no friction—no way to pull the drop into a ...

Scientists have exploited the properties of rotating fluids to build structures that could be used for applications in photonics. Many of the structures found in nature, such as strands of DNA and ...

Studying the behavior of rotating fluids is critical to understanding how weather and climate work, but the physics of these systems can be hard to grasp. Part of the problem is that instructors ...