Vortex beams, rotating like a tornado, offer completely new possibilities for electron microscopy. A method of producing extremely intense vortex beams has been discovered. Vortex beams, rotating like ...

A new animation using data from ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft shows that the double eye of the giant vortex at Venus’s South pole has disappeared. Results of a study that shows the complex, variable ...

[Anthony Garofalo] has made a fancier plasma speaker. Not content with a simple spark, he uses a plasma vortex. To make the vortex, the spark gap is swapped out for an electrode placed in the centre ...

French researchers develop sophisticated mathematical model to study the behavior of earthly vortices, like hurricanes and ocean currents What do smoke rings, tornadoes and the Great Red Spot of ...

Knots are not just for shoelaces and sailing lines. In the last decade, physicists have shown that swirling liquids can ...

Physicists have created the first-ever atomic vortex beam — a swirling tornado of atoms and molecules with mysterious properties that have yet to be understood. By sending a straight beam of helium ...

What do smoke rings, tornadoes and the Great Red Spot of Jupiter have in common? They are all examples of vortices, regions within a fluid (liquid, gas or plasma) where the flow spins around an ...

Beams of electromagnetic radiation can be used to detect the rotation of distant objects if they have orbital angular momentum – known as ‘vortex waves’. It involves exploiting a rotational form of ...

A new animation using data from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Venus Express spacecraft shows that the double eye of the giant vortex at Venus’ south pole has disappeared. Orbiting around Venus ...