Researchers studying the movement of crowds at a traditional Spanish festival have shown that densely packed groups of people form swirling ‘vortex’ patterns never before documented in human ...

As Juno flew over the swirling vortex, it measured the storm's temperature and depth. NASA then used Juno's data to produce this simulation of what it would be like to fly into this massive storm.

"The texture resembles a swirling vortex of liquid flowing into a narrowing funnel," explains Dubourdieu. "The center down-converging nanodomains can be reversibly switched to center up-diverging ...

The texture in each nanoisland resembles a swirling vortex of liquid flowing into a narrowing funnel. Ferroelectrics at the nanoscale exhibit a wealth of polar and sometimes swirling (chiral ...