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These vortical tricks do more than rewrite ornithology textbooks.—
John Drake,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025 Spinning on a vortical current of their own creation and vanishing into a dark hole.—
Karen Russell,
The New Yorker,
4 Oct. 2021 The other route is the chiral vortical symmetry, which requires that the plasma be rotating.—
John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
2 Aug. 2017 Hydrogen, oxygen and all other atoms were, deep down, just different types of vortical knots.—Quanta Magazine,
16 Dec. 2015