Now, researchers at the University of Greifswald and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, Germany, have shown that water tornadoes can also provide a surprisingly good analog ...

The findings suggest that sufficiently small particles introduced into the laboratory vortex should behave similarly to dust ...

A new laboratory experiment uses a water tornado to simulate key processes in planet formation within protoplanetary discs.

A new laboratory experiment uses a water vortex to investigate how planets form from material in protoplanetary gas and dust ...

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Destructive tornadoes have hit states such as Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana this season as activity shifts east. Meanwhile, scientists say dry and hot weather in the Great Plains ...

Southeast Michigan has seen spin-up tornadoes in the past - ones that form fast and not necessarily along a storm line.

What stands out about 2025 so far isn't just the number of tornadoes, but how Tornado Alley has encompassed just about everything east of the Rockies, and how tornado season is becoming all year.

Colorado averages close to 50 tornadoes per year, with a peak in June. Unlike the vast majority of the U.S., a significant number of tornadoes are landspouts, which form differently to other tornadoes ...

2025 has already been an above average year for tornadoes, which have had significant and deadly impacts in many communities in the United States. The strongest tornadoes: Tornadoes are usually ...

The devastating F4 tornado brought 18 minutes of fury to Great Barrington in 1995.

Field campaigns studying how tornadoes form may help us better answer this question. For safety, it’s time to stop focusing on spring as tornado season and the Great Plains as Tornado Alley.