vortices

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Powerful currents twist and churn, creating swirling eddies that split into smaller and smaller vortices until their energy eventually fades away.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

All measurements of the magnetic vortices and analysis of data from multiple instruments were carried out using the Labmule program developed at HZDR, which is available as a lab automation tool.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

These vortices form in pairs that rotate in opposite directions, with one spinning clockwise and the other counterclockwise.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

These vortices offer additional ways to encode information, but most existing systems can produce only a single type of pattern and usually lack the ability to switch between modes.

From Science Daily • Feb. 4, 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