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 work?? We ...

WEST MICHIGAN — As the warmer weather approaches, severe thunderstorms are possible in West Michigan and they can (and oftentimes do) spawn tornadoes. In our weather kids experiment today, we create a ...

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 can rotate through the air while flying ...

New Year’s Eve is just around the corner when many folks set off fireworks to ring in the new year. The colors within the fireworks are determined by metallic elements emitting certain colors when ...

Scientists have created a “giant quantum vortex” that is able to mimic a black hole and could help reveal their mysteries. Research hope to use the experiment – which uses superfluid helium to model ...

Seals use their whiskers to detect tiny vortex rings, seeing through the watery “smoke rings” fish use to escape.

The process of vortex ring generation and propagation has received substantial treatment in the literature. A common ring generation geometry consists of a piston moving through tube that exits into a ...