This calculated diffraction image shows how forked diffraction gratings shape the atoms' wave function into a vortex. (Courtesy: Science/AAAS) A wave-like property previously only seen in beams of ...

A supersolid is a paradoxical state of matter—it is rigid like a crystal but flows without friction like a superfluid. This ...

Left: Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Right: Two large paddle potentials stir a superfluid inducing large scale flow (UQ study). Courtesy: T Neely Turbulence is a common phenomenon in nature and is also ...

Explore the science behind the air vortex machine and its applications in education and entertainment. Discover the ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

University of Chicago physicists have succeeding 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 ...

In an early sign of the winter weather that's coming, the dreaded polar vortex is making news yet again. The polar vortex is "ramping up from its summer slumber," said meteorologist Judah Cohen in an ...

Awards presented in 2003 to three Argonne scientists highlighted the excellence of Argonne's superconductivity program. Distinguished Scientist Alexei Abrikosov shared the Nobel Prize in physics.

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