At first glance, the act of pouring paint across a canvas looks wild. Paint drops through the air, twists with each motion of ...

If you’ve ever looked up on a summer evening and noticed a flurry of tiny, boomerang-shaped birds swirling high in the sky, ...

An exhibit currently shown in both the Houston Museum of Natural Science and the Nicole Longnecker Gallery is a compelling ...

Researchers have new insight about the formation of vortices in a type of quantum fluid, work that could help our comprehension of the physics mystery of how vortex clusters form and provide valuable ...

Photographer’s description: “I was heading back from a sunset hike and wildflower search when the lenticular over Rainier started to light up. I focused in with my telephoto lens and was at awe of the ...

Color schlieren imaging turns invisible airflows into vivid, moving structures that look almost alive. Heat, pressure, and ...

The swirling spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 3285B, which resides 137 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra (the Water Snake). Hydra has the largest ...

Exploring and manipulating the behavior of polar vortices in material may lead to new technology for faster data transfer and storage. Our high-speed, high-bandwidth world constantly requires new ways ...

If you’ve ever looked up on a summer evening and noticed a flurry of tiny, boomerang-shaped birds swirling high in the sky, ...

Our high-speed, high-bandwidth world constantly requires new ways to process and store information. Semiconductors and magnetic materials have made up the bulk of data storage devices for decades. In ...