A giant vortex at the south pole of Venus is actually a shape-shifter that changes form at least once a day, at times bizarrely taking on the appearance of a giant letter "S" or the number "8," a new ...

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 ...

My thoughts, in order, upon viewing this drone footage of a “giant intake vortex” in an Oklahoma waterway: Hey, cool, a vortex! Wow, it is, indeed, giant looking. Big enough to swallow a person, ...

CARTWRIGHT, Okla. (KXAN) — Record rainfall across parts of Texas and Oklahoma led to some stunning scenes this spring, including a large vortex created as Lake Texoma was drained after floodwaters ...

Scientists have created a “giant quantum vortex” that is able to mimic a black hole and could help reveal their mysteries. Research hope to use the experiment – which uses superfluid helium to model ...

This is a crazy overhead view of a giant intake vortex at Denison Dam in Lake Texoma, one of the largest reservoirs in the US on the border of Texas and Oklahoma. The water in the reservoir got a ...

Black hole in a blender: The experimental set-up the researchers used to create the giant quantum vortex, which mimics certain behaviours of black holes. (Courtesy: Leonardo Solidoro) A novel ...