It's a term you hear every couple of winters, when we get stuck in the coldest of cold patterns – polar vortex. But what exactly is it and how does it impact our weather? The polar vortex is ...

In 1881 appeared as the Adams Prize Essay a mathematical treatise on the vortex theory. At that time the theory that atoms were vortices in the ether was very popular and several well-known names ...

The system, known as a polar vortex, is forecast to bring subzero temperatures to the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and deep into the South. And it looks as if we may get more arctic blasts in the coming ...

Center vortices are a significant concept in Yang-Mills theory, which is a framework used in particle physics to describe the behavior of fundamental forces. These vortices are associated with the ...