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This behavior, known as one-dimensional pinning-free vortex flow, means the vortices can travel along a defined path without encountering the usual obstacles that restrict their movement.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

A strong polar vortex tends to encourage a strong polar jet stream in the troposphere.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

So while El Niño is already having big impacts on global weather, and may influence the polar vortex later in winter, snow and ice in the UK is far from guaranteed.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The trout rose without haste, a shadow in faint wavering increase; again the little vortex faded slowly downstream.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

Her drawings, which come in sets of two or three near-identical shapes, have "a beautiful intricacy to them" and "look like swirling vortexes", he said.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 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

The findings demonstrate that even a surface feature only one atom high can have a powerful influence on the movement of quantum vortices.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Under certain conditions, these vortices moved more than 1,000 times more easily along the steps than across them.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Scientists in Japan have discovered that tiny steps just one atom high can act like microscopic railroad tracks, guiding the movement of quantum vortices inside an ultrathin superconductor.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

As the current rises, these vortices can begin to move.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Hooke also did away with the vortices, introducing the idea of what we would now call ‘action at a distance’—gravity reaching out across empty space to tug on the Moon or the planets.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin