UBC Scientists have mimicked the elusive Schwinger effect using superfluid helium, showing how vortex pairs can emerge from ...

Researchers at UBC have found a way to mimic the elusive Schwinger effect using superfluid helium, where vortex pairs appear ...

Tornadoes on the outer edges of a typhoon's spiral rain bands are a severe convective weather phenomenon that occurs on the periphery of tropical cyclone systems. Compared to the core region near the ...

W hen matter and antimatter collide, they turn into pure energy. Energy can also spontaneously turn into matter and ...

Imagine watching the impossible happen: from an empty space, tiny whirlpools suddenly spin into existence, as if conjured ...

Researchers have long sought to control quantum states in materials for use in a next generation of high-speed computing—so-called quantum computing that scientists predict could one day lead to ...

A rare glimpse into the wintry conditions of the Mars north polar vortex has shown that temperatures inside the vortex are ...