GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Remember the term polar vortex? We have heard about it and felt that bitter cold arctic air during plenty of West Michigan winters, but what is a vortex and how does it ...

Weather experiment: Cold air, warm air, tornado vortex Chief Meteorologist Kevin Craig Demonstrates a Spinning Tornado Vortex ...

Hidden beneath a canopy of oak trees in Southern Oregon lies a place where gravity seems to lose its grip, perspective plays tricks on your eyes and the laws of physics appear to bend. Known as the ...

Join us in this epic Lego experiment where we build and test various mechanisms to create a water vortex inside a plastic ball! Using innovative Lego designs, we explore the power of magnetic ...

In December’s Weather Experiment Wednesday, we created a fire vortex in a contained cylinder.

In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron ...

Matt Leevy with the University of Notre Dame Innovation Lab has lots of fun experiments up his sleeve, but this one is both fun and easy to do! The vortex wing ...

At the heart of this research is the analysis of vortex rings and complex shock structures generated from impulsive flows, such as those emerging from shock tube experiments.

In this experiment, the challenge was getting water to make just the right shape as it is blasted out at high speed. That took a lot of work with a 3-D printer and some heavy-duty mathematical ...