You walk into an empty room by the sea, to find a perfectly circular hole punched out of the concrete floor where a vortex of water swirls and crashes with perfect rhythm. It sounds like an optical ...

Hoping to learn more about one of the most glaring examples of waste and environmental pollution on Earth, a group of scientists will set sail from San Francisco today to the “Great Pacific Garbage ...

Josh Wurman and Karen Kosiba, the researchers inside the mobile radar unit, noted the average wind inside the hurricane’s ...

Did you know that ocean waves that come across a current from a different direction can turn into a violent, rapidly swirling tornado-like whirlpool? This can also happen if a current flows over an ...

Short pulses from a laser can be twisted into a series of doughnut-like vortices, offering a way to transmit more information using light. We usually encounter vortices in water and air, but similar ...

Stop me if this isn’t as cool as I think it is (sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between “legitimately awesome” and “weather-nerd neat”), but I had to share. What you’re seeing on the ...