A network of torons, self-organizing defects in liquid crystals whose internal structure enables the generation of laser light carrying orbital angular momentum. Credit: Marcin Muszyński, Faculty of Physics University of Warsaw Can light spin like a whirlwind? Researchers have now shown that it can. Scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, the Military University of Technology, and the Institut Pascal CNRS at Université Clermont Auvergne have created swirling "optical