Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Though flamingos often appear to feed serenely in shallow lakes, their hunting behavior is anything but passive. A new study ...

Air rings blown by dolphins swimming underwater and rings of smoke emitted by jet engines are just two examples of vortex rings. These doughnut-shaped structures and their mesmerizing movement have ...

A team of researchers discovered an extraordinary property of vortex rings—how dolphins propel themselves underwater—that science had overlooked for a century. Scientists from New York University and ...

Caltech engineers in John Dabiri’s lab have taught a simple submarine robot to take advantage of turbulent forces to propel itself through water. Dabiri and his former graduate student Peter Gunnarson ...

Air rings blown by dolphins swimming underwater and rings of smoke emitted by jet engines are just two examples of vortex rings. These doughnut-shaped structures and their mesmerizing movement have ...