The science pros at TKOR build a giant smoke ring toy to study air vortex motion.

Smoke rings are being seen in a new light. Doughnut-shaped structures called vortex rings are sometimes seen swirling through fluids. Smokers can form them with their mouths, volcanoes can spit them ...

A smoke ring formed in the sky after a transformer explosion in Branford on Thursday and the mysterious looking formation is called smoke vortex ring. Smoke vortices form when there is a blast through ...

Mount Etna in Sicily has been blowing spectacular ‘smoke rings’ into the sky since Wednesday. The volcano, which towers over the historic port city of Catania, is the largest in Europe and one of the ...

Tourists in Italy have been treated to quite the show as Mount Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe, has been blowing spectacular “smoke rings” into the sky since last week. The rare phenomenon, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Volcanic vortex rings emerge from a new pit crater on the north side of the southeast crater of Mount Etna in Sicily Mount Etna, ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Let’s talk about Vortexes. A vortex is defined as “a mass of whirling fluid or air, especially a whirlpool or whirlwind.” If you what to harness an air vortex in a small way, Clark ...

In high school, I once tried to build a smoke-ring-generating vortex cannon out of a five-gallon paint bucket, a t-shirt, and some dry ice. My contraption was a letdown. It produced weak, wispy rings, ...