On Sunday July 9, the residents of Yorkshire, England saw something strange when they looked up into the sky. Hovering roughly 300 feet off the ground was an ominous black ring of smoke. The shape ...

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, ...

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 ...

Face it: All your coolest friends are really good at vape tricks, and you can’t even manage a single ring. You’re sitting there blowing smoke out both ends wondering how the heck this stuff even ...

A group of hikers look at one of the smoke rings Europe's most active volcano, Mount Etna, is blowing scores of ethereal "vortex rings" every day from a single vent located in one of its most active ...

Let me drop a hard truth-bomb on you: as an indicator of well-cooked barbecue, the smoke ring is useless. Narcissus was less attached to his reflection than some barbecue cooks and critics are to that ...

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Nothing catches an eye in a cigar lounge like the perfect cigar ring. That slow-floating circle, drifting lazily through the air, screams one thing to the world: you’re a master cigar serenader. There ...

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