vortex
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By using these atomic steps as natural guiding tracks, scientists may be able to control vortex motion with remarkable precision.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Equally, periods of a meandering jet stream and cold winter weather often occur without significant changes in the polar vortex.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Sometimes, however, the polar vortex can wobble, weaken or even reverse direction.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
This sharply reduces the energy loss caused by vortex motion and allows researchers to push the superconducting state much closer to its fundamental current limit.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Nailer dragged himself out of the vortex and clung to the rail.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
"So you get these big vortexes, it's quite intense, with these outbursts of activity."
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025
Their findings revealed that swimmers can utilize water flow and vortexes more effectively as their speed increases.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024
After the Breton engineers who had designed and assembled the vortexes told everyone to take their seats, the “Prometheus” team quieted down, and waited.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
Mobulas are known to create vortex formations when feeding or resting, but this is the first time vortexes have been reported in a mating context.
From National Geographic ● Nov. 20, 2023
Little vortexes of dust spiral around the block as I step down from the trailer with my parents.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
By learning to observe and manipulate these tiny magnetic vortices in real time, scientists are gaining capabilities that could eventually help reshape the design of computers.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
"These nanoscale vortices could help develop computers that resemble biological brains," said Sudbø.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
It also allows researchers to study how changing the size and shape of individual magnetic vortices affects their behavior.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
The experiments revealed an extraordinary difference in how easily the vortices could move depending on their direction.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
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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