Wine aficionados are known for gently swirling their wine in the glass before tasting, and it isn’t as pretentious as it seems. (Well, maybe a little.) They claim the rotation mixes in oxygen and ...

Assistant professor of physics Guillaume Duclos calls it the "swirl." It's made up of two types of cellular proteins -- kinesin and microtubules -- interacting to create a vortex under the microscope.

I don’t know what’s happening here but it’s a visual trip show and we can thank science for it. It’s the recrystallization of impure 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde being dunked into ice water. You can see the ...