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Emerging from the vortex

Whether a car or a ball, the forces acting on a body moving in a straight line are very different to those acting on one moving in tight curves. This maxim also holds true at microscopic scales. As such, a ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Europe hammered by winter, is North America next?

For the first half of this year's winter, the big news was warm temperatures and lack of snow. Ski resorts were covered in bare dirt, while January temperatures in southern California topped July highs.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 14

Researchers create 'tornados' inside electron microscopes

Researchers from the University of York are pioneering the development of electron microscopes which will allow scientists to examine a greater variety of materials in new revolutionary ways.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hot invention cools down environment: Environmentally-friendly heat exchanger produced

The current global energy crisis means that sustainability now supplants necessity as the mother of all invention. Concordia University's Georgios Vatistas, professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Manipulating the texture of magnetism

Knowing how to control the combined magnetic properties of interacting electrons will provide the basis to develop an important tool for advancing spintronics: a technology that aims to harness these properties ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

South polar region of Titan, Saturn's largest moon

(PhysOrg.com) -- This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the south polar region of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and shows a depression within the moon's orange and blue haze layers near the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Physicists unveil a theory for a new kind of superconductivity

(PhysOrg.com) -- In this 100th anniversary year of the discovery of superconductivity, physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology have published a ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (31) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

New nanostructured glass for imaging and recording developed

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Southampton researchers have developed new nano-structured glass optical elements, which have applications in optical manipulation and will significantly reduce the cost of medical ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Japan's tsunami debris set for 10-year Pacific tour

Debris sucked from the shoreline of Japan by the March 11 tsunami has embarked on a 10-year circuit of the North Pacific, posing an enduring threat to shipping and wildlife, a French green group says.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Improved recovery of samples sought from biohazard events

It may not be as catchy a combination as "Miss Scarlet in the parlor with a revolver," but "polyester-rayon wipes in the field followed by saline-surfactant extraction and vortexing" is the most efficient ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A quick switch for magnetic needles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic vortex cores, which can be used as particularly stable storage points for data bits, can now be switched much faster.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Physicists discover new way to visualize warped space and time

(PhysOrg.com) -- When black holes slam into each other, the surrounding space and time surge and undulate like a heaving sea during a storm. This warping of space and time is so complicated that physicists ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (32) | comments 49 | with audio podcast

The shape-shifting southern vortex of Venus

(PhysOrg.com) -- New analysis of images taken by ESA's Venus Express orbiter has revealed surprising details about the remarkable, shape-shifting collar of clouds that swirls around the planet's South Pole. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Research elucidates the effect of disorder on magnetic vortex gyration

Much of the world’s information is stored in memories consisting of magnetic domains, and researchers continue to develop new domain arrangements to enable smaller and faster such memories.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicists observe exotic state in an unconventional superconductor

A new fractional vortex state observed in an unconventional superconductor may offer the first glimpse of an exotic state of matter predicted theoretically for more than 30 years. In a paper published in the ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Vortex

A vortex (plural: vortices) is a spinning, often turbulent, flow of fluid. Any spiral motion with closed streamlines is vortex flow. The motion of the fluid swirling rapidly around a center is called a vortex. The speed and rate of rotation of the fluid are greatest at the center, and decrease progressively with distance from the center.

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