The river carried away vehicles, homes and lives, leaving behind wreckage that looked more like the aftermath of a tornado than a thunderstorm. Flash floods can look deceptively calm before ...

Simple laboratory model for cosmic flows developed: A water tornado enables a realistic simulation of the dynamics of gas and dust in planet-forming discs. Kepler’s laws confirmed in a water ...

Researchers have developed a simple laboratory model using a water tornado to simulate the dynamics of gas and dust in planet-forming discs. Experts have long tried to study the swirling clouds of ...

Now, researchers at the University of Greifswald and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, Germany, have shown that water tornadoes can also provide a surprisingly good ...