University of Chicago physicists working in the nascent field of experimental vortex dynamics have, with unexpected help from a Sharpie marker, achieved the first measurements of an elusive but ...

The early Universe was a strange place. The Universe was so dense and hot that atoms and nuclei could not form—they would be ripped apart by high-energy collisions. Even protons and neutrons could not ...

Start your week with this mind-blowing demonstration of laminar flow, courtesy of the University of New Mexico’s Physics Department. The apparatus, called a “Couette Cell,” was developed by John ...