A new animation using data from ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft shows that the double eye of the giant vortex at Venus’s South pole has disappeared. Results of a study that shows the complex, variable ...

A breakthrough in the control of a type of particle known as the polariton has created a highly specialised form of rotation. A breakthrough in the control of a type of particle known as the polariton ...

What do smoke rings, tornadoes and the Great Red Spot of Jupiter have in common? They are all examples of vortices, regions within a fluid (liquid, gas or plasma) where the flow spins around an ...

You may have recently heard the term, “polar vortex." Sounds new and ominous! This, however, is an atmospheric phenomenon that atmospheric scientists have known about for many decades. The polar ...

With the bitter cold of winter descending upon the U.S., one may question what is responsible for this upcoming period of below-average temperatures. In short, the answer is the polar vortex. But what ...