Scientists have created a “giant quantum vortex” that is able to mimic a black hole and could help reveal their mysteries. Research hope to use the experiment – which uses superfluid helium to model ...

Knots are not just for shoelaces and sailing lines. In the last decade, physicists have shown that swirling liquids can ...

It may be dangerously cold in the American Midwest, but that hasn’t stopped people venturing out to see how freezing temperatures can affect everything from bubbles to urine. Parts of the United ...

Step inside the strange world of a superfluid, a liquid that can flow endlessly without friction, defying the common-sense ...