The ornithopter covered a distance of about 65 feet during its maiden flight before crashing, breaking both the contraption’s spiral whalebone wings and its pilot’s own spiral hip ...

Recognized as the official state shell of Texas, the lightning whelk is a fascinating marine predator, Jace Tunnell writes.

The way the light behaves resembles spiral shapes common in nature. The researchers borrowed from classical mechanics to nickname their never-before-demonstrated light vortex an "optical rotatum ...

The blue spiral in the center of this field of green and white cells looks as if it might be a seashell. However, it is actually the cochlea of a newborn mouse. The cochlea is an organ in the inner ...

Pushing the limits of structured light, applied physicists report a new type of optical vortex beam that not only twists as it travels but also changes in different parts at different rates to create ...