In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have developed the first controlled method for exciting and observing ...

Scientists demonstrate controlled oscillations of quantum vortex core lines in superfluid helium, visualizing helical waves on quantum vortices.

Lord Kelvin’s Thunderstorm is build around the concept of water droplets falling through inductors. Two streams of water fall from small holes in reservoirs at the top. Those streams fall ...

Lord Kelvin theorized in 1880 that stimulating a thin vortex line would produce a helical deformation, later known as a ...

With the death of Lord Kelvin on the 17th of December, in the 84th year of his life, there was ended a career full of usefulness to mankind. To wonderful scientific attainments he united a faculty ...

From thermodynamics to refrigeration and the development of radio, Lord Kelvin’s contributions to science were many and varied Nineteenth-century scientist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin ...

Rare clouds could be seen from parts of the Highlands on Saturday afternoon. Called Kelvin Helmholtz, they resemble rolling ...

William (Thomson), 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs, physicist, mathematician, engineer and inventor, was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey. He was born on 26th June 1824 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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