Turbulence seems like it ought to be simple enough to understand. After all, just about anyone who has ever flown in a plane has experienced it firsthand: that sudden, violent airflow that turns your ...

Producing fusion energy requires heating plasma to more than one hundred million degrees and confining it stably with strong ...

Scientists have made a leap forward in understanding the pattern and structure of turbulence — a natural phenomenon observed in fluids such as moving water, ocean currents, chemical reactions, blood ...

Just as in-flight turbulence—irregular disruptions in the airflow—results in a bumpy plane ride, plasma turbulence transports ...

Two studies published in 2025 pushed back on the claims that the Dutch painter’s famous work accurately depicted a ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford have pioneered a new approach to simulate turbulent systems, based on probabilities.

Mathematical formulas written over a hundred years ago could find an echo in the most current theories about black holes and ...

The researchers' experiment featured transparent walls to allow full visual access, and used a state-of-the-art flow visualization. Credit: Photo: Michael Schatz Turbulence plays a key role in our ...

A new mechanism that could reduce plasma turbulence in stellarators has been identified in computer simulations done by researchers in the US and Germany. A similar effect has already been predicted ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. Turbulence is a big problem -- not just for airline passengers, but for physicists ...

A novel technique for studying vortices in quantum fluids has been developed by physicists. Turbulence in quantum systems, for example in superfluid helium 4, takes place on microscopic scales, and so ...