Physicists at the University of Warsaw have generated a miniature “laser tornado” inside nanoscale structures by engineering ...

A completely new structure of light just dropped, called the chiral vortex – and the international team of scientists behind its creation says it could be crucial in developing new drugs and in ...

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have measured “dark points” inside light waves that appear to ...

A new laser based on a swirling vortex of light has been created by physicists in the US. The “topological-defect laser” could be a useful addition to lab-on-a-chip devices, where it could manipulate ...

There’s a new kind of twisted light. A rotating “vortex beam” whose twist changes across the length of the beam has been created in the lab for the first time. Researchers discovered in 1992 that a ...

Smoke rings are being seen in a new light. Doughnut-shaped structures called vortex rings are sometimes seen swirling through fluids. Smokers can form them with their mouths, volcanoes can spit them ...

A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of ...

under the MIT license on GitHub, uses WebGL to display three-dimensional computer graphics on a web browser, and it is possible to create multicolored complex vortices by fluid simulation. Tool to ...