In his design, Qiu intended to keep to the “gentle and swirly” nature of water. To that end, he designed a system of turbines installed inside the faucet to create different swirly flows. Similar to a ...

As boring as it may sound, the direction that toilet bowl water swirls at the equator has more to do with the toilet's manufacturer than it does any physics phenomena. Subscribe to read this story ...

When you flush a toilet, which way does the water swirl? People in the Northern Hemisphere might say water swirls down in a counterclockwise direction because of the Earth's rotation. But it turns out ...

When bacteria band together, they can turn a fairly tame drop of water into a swirling vortex. The swirl is spun up by the bacteria’s tail-like flagella and the basic physics of how fluids flow, ...