Researchers have found that a swirling water vortex can force opposing waves to form rotating lines of stillness across an ...

The cover artwork for this issue of Nano Letters was created by first author Muqing Yu. The image uses a landscape metaphor to depict the vortex dynamics at the heart of the supercurrent diode effect: ...

Lines of momentarily flat water extend outward and rotate, in the opposite direction to the flow of the vortex. The left video shows the pattern from the experiment, while the right video shows the ...