PISS VORTEX. This moniker is a rare gem; it sells the band in accurate terms. It's patently absurd, but also evocative. What would a literal piss vortex be like? Disgusting and unsanitary, certainly, ...

Researchers are pushing laser technology forward using another light manipulation technique called orbital angular momentum, which distributes the laser in a corkscrew pattern with a vortex at the ...

In Robert Charles Wilson's Hugo Award-winning 2005 novel Spin, mysterious beings, for reasons of their own, encase the Earth in a temporal bubble. With every year that passes on Earth, 100 million ...

Laura has been writing about anime for some time. Shibai Otsutsuki is introduced as an enigmatic figure and the most powerful Otsutsuki clan member. Fans expect Shibai to return due to his unfinished ...

The polar vortex has been a prominent feature in the news lately. Changes in the polar vortex have been linked to our recent unusually cold weather; furthermore, changes in the polar vortex are now ...

Regular rocket engines get incredibly hot, reaching temperatures upwards of 3,000C (5,400F) or more, hot enough to melt the metal chamber in which the rocket fuel mixes with oxygen and burns. At these ...

To say there’s been a bit of discussion for the last 10 months or so about the polar vortex would be an understatement the size of the Arctic. The phrase is now a permanent part of our wintertime ...