A Texas windmill struck by lightning yesterday made more than a few smoke rings that could rival even Gandalf’s best. One Texas resident captured the flames on video as he was passing by, in 45-second ...

A team of physicists at UCLA has uncovered a strange and unexpected phenomenon—spiral patterns forming spontaneously on solid surfaces. The discovery, which began with a simple mistake in the lab, is ...

Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of beautiful spiral patterns etched on the surface of the semiconductor by a ...