vortex

Draped silhouettes and oversize parkas become an entry point into a vortex in which linearity doesn’t exist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

In the proof, a spaghetti-like vortex gets smaller while spinning faster and faster, its speed growing without limit in what mathematicians call “finite-time blowup.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

"We create, basically, a tornado – a violent vortex inside the tunnel," says Helming, as he explains how this helps the machine to suck away debris, which at times takes the form of lava.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Detonation waves form through a fluid mechanical instability involving wave and vortex patterns in the flowing gases.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

A dozen monsters were sucked into the vortex and disintegrated.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

"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

Because the researchers find that these small whirlpools appear continuously wherever the magnetic field is sufficiently strong, the vortices could provide a persistent mechanism for twisting the Sun's magnetic field lines.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

Zooming in on the Sun's surface, the team captured a detailed view of swirling vortices.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

The phenomenon happens when fluids - in this case hot gases - slide past each other and cause small disturbances to grow into spiralling vortices.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

On Earth, wind passing over a body of water can create rolling waves and swirling vortices.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 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