The treatment of kidney stones could soon be getting much faster, easier, and safer. Scientists have devised a method of ...

There is a sudden warming about to happen high up in the atmosphere. This warming usually affects the Polar Vortex.

The term “polar vortex” might conjure images of mythical icy storms swirling through the North Pole but in reality it’s a ...

The collective motion of bacteria—from stable swirling patterns to chaotic turbulent flows—has intrigued scientists for decades. When a bacterial ...

Hidden in the stormy Furious Fifties, the South Sandwich Islands generate spectacular cloud formations. Winds sweeping past ...

Researchers from the Department of Physics have managed to experimentally develop a new magnetic state: a magneto-ionic ...

These effects can lead to unexpected outcomes, and even create a swirling vortex that reverses the particles' usual paths.