A 2015 satellite photo captured a series of stunning "von Kármán vortices" swirling off Madeira and the Canary Islands. The ...

A striking 2015 satellite image has captured a rare meteorological phenomenon known as von Kármán vortices swirling off ...

The universe's invisible dark matter might swirl into spinning clumps laced with countless tiny vortices, new theoretical work suggests. The findings, published May 30 in the journal Physical Review D ...

Nashville Zoo flamingos reveal the oddball birds generate many types of vortices to eat. The swirls could be an inspiration to human engineers.

Microwave satellite data are key to capturing major changes in a hurricane’s strength, such as when a storm undergoes rapid ...

A close look at the video shows a pair of rotating vortices, one rotating clockwise and the other rotating counterclockwise, and that's a behavior seen in strong updrafts or fire plumes in other ...

Quantized vortices – one of the defining features of superfluidity – have been seen in a supersolid for the first time. Observed by researchers in Austria, these vortices provide further confirmation ...