University of Chicago physicists working in the nascent field of experimental vortex dynamics have, with unexpected help from a Sharpie marker, achieved the first measurements of an elusive but ...

The list of things people can do with LEGO is literally endless. Case in point: The below experiment centered on the dynamics of dropping LEGO minifigures into a vortex. A vortex itself made ...

University of Chicago physicists working in the nascent field of experimental vortex dynamics have, with unexpected help from a Sharpie marker, achieved the first measurements of an elusive but ...

Abstract: We present a high-precision, high-stability and high-speed sweep-frequency source, which can generate a rotating frame in Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) vortex experiments.

It may be dangerously cold in the American Midwest, but that hasn’t stopped people venturing out to see how freezing temperatures can affect everything from bubbles to urine. Parts of the United ...

The ice cold spell which has gripped the US during the Polar Vortex has continued to take hold as all 50 states recorded temperatures below freezing. While people have been warned to take care as New ...

News correspondents from CNN, ABC and even local newspapers tried to find "unique" ways of demonstrating how cold it is outside Illustration/IBTimes By now, you’ve probably heard about the “polar ...

Throwing a ball across a room is easy, but throwing air? That sounds like a bit more of a challenge! Air is a gas, a state of matter that expands to fill any container it is in. Unlike a solid or a ...