M aterials tend to have very distinct magnetic properties. For some, being in a magnetic field means developing strong ...

MIT engineers have discovered that the mobula ray, a type of filter-feeding aquatic ray, utilizes a unique mechanism to feed ...

Vortex is a natural fluid phenomenon that is often of great consequence in almost any practical flow, such as shear layers, wakes, jets, plumes, and multi-phase or multi-physics interfaces. In fluid ...

From 2014 to 2024, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been studying the outer planets under a program called OPAL (Outer ...

Modern-day crop circles first appeared in the English countryside in the 1970s, with their intricacy and number steadily increasing over the years. Were they made by aliens, time travellers, strange ...

A vortex flowmeter design provides three independent safety measurements and a process control variable measurement in a ...

Science often surprises us with its ability to connect seemingly unrelated phenomena. Have you ever stopped to marvel at how ...

Suddenly in the perfectly calm afternoon, the air disappeared from under the wings. You couldn’t miss that feeling—we were ...

MIT engineers 3D print water filters inspired by the plankton-filtering features of mobula rays - improving industrial water filtration.

Mesoscale eddies are ocean vortices less than 100 kilometers in diameter that are responsible for the localized “weather” of ...

Aircraft generate wake just like boats do in the water. Unlike the water, you can't see wake in the air but should always ...

Giant vortices at Jupiter's poles, which were not expected to exist, have surprised scientists. This mystery has finally been solved thanks to the analysis of archival images from the Hubble telescope ...