vortices
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Optical vortices, which are light beams that carry orbital angular momentum, offer remarkable opportunities for ultra-precise material processing, accelerating particles, expanding data transmission capacity and enabling next-generation photonics.
From Science Daily • Nov. 24, 2025
These vortices can point in two opposite directions while producing neither net magnetization nor net electric polarization.
From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2025
The team surmised that vortices are the key to mobula rays' filter-feeding ability.
From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024
The ray is able to swim at just the right speed that water, streaming into its mouth, can form vortices between the grooved plates.
From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024
All of this can be explained very well in the atomic model of the world, but only with much greater difficulty using Cartesian vortices.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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