vortices

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Optical vortices, which are light beams that carry orbital angular momentum, offer remarkable opportunities for ultra-precise material processing, accelerating particles, expanding data transmission capacity and enabling next-generation photonics.

From Science Daily • Nov. 24, 2025

Instead of relying on magnetic or electric polarization states, these materials contain vortices of electric dipoles.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2025

These vortices can point in two opposite directions while producing neither net magnetization nor net electric polarization.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2025

The ray is able to swim at just the right speed that water, streaming into its mouth, can form vortices between the grooved plates.

From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024

Hooke also did away with the vortices, introducing the idea of what we would now call ‘action at a distance’—gravity reaching out across empty space to tug on the Moon or the planets.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin