Recently, researchers from Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have made progress in the angular momentum properties of quantum vortex ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. Kelvin’s idea was inspired by the work of Hermann Helmholtz, ...

Two Australian studies published this week offer the first proof of a 70-year-old theory of turbulence. "The studies confirm a seminal theory of the formation of large-scale vortices from turbulence ...

Magnetic vortex structures, so-called skyrmions, could in future store and process information very efficiently. They could also be the basis for high-frequency components. For the first time, a team ...

A new theory by fluid dynamics experts at the University of California, Berkeley, shows how “zombie vortices” help lead to the birth of a new star. Reporting today (Tuesday, Aug. 20) in the journal ...

Current-induced vortex oscillations in an extended thin-film with point-contact geometry are considered. The synchronization of these oscillations with a microwave external magnetic field is ...

University of Chicago physicists have succeeded in creating a vortex knot—a feat akin to tying a smoke ring into a knot. Linked and knotted vortex loops have existed in theory for more than a century, ...

Berkeley -- A new theory by fluid dynamics experts at the University of California, Berkeley, shows how "zombie vortices" help lead to the birth of a new star. Reporting today (Tuesday, Aug. 20) in ...