Scientists in Germany have crafted “skyrmion bags” of light—complex vortex-like structures—on the surface of gold by cleverly manipulating how laser beams interact with nano-etched patterns. This unus ...

If you’ve ever found yourself caught in the Govalle vortex between the pink margaritas at De Nada Cantina and the ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

A team of researchers at the University of Stuttgart has created completely new properties for light by manipulating how it ...

Our results add another chapter to the emerging field of skyrmion research," proclaims Prof. Harald Giessen , head of the Fourth Physics Institute ...

A research group at the University of Stuttgart has manipulated light through its interaction with a metal surface so that it ...

Optical rotatum” is the term researchers coined to describe a newly discovered structure of light. Beams of light that can be ...

Researchers have discovered that dense crowds can spontaneously synchronize into collective oscillations, with hundreds of people moving in coordinated, swirling patterns — like a human vortex. These ...