Physicists and biomedical engineers unlocked new properties in capillary waves thanks to superhydrophobicity. Ripples, like ones produced by raindrops falling in a puddle, are also called capillary ...

Proof of gravitational waves came on Sept. 14, 2015, when two giant, L-shaped, 2-mile-long laser instruments, one set up in a swamp in Louisiana and the other in Hanford, Washington, detected a tiny ...

(Phys.org)—Recent gravitational wave detections have allowed physicists to confirm with greater and greater precision what Einstein predicted over 100 years ago in the theory of general relativity: ...

For the first time researchers directly measured the speed of a wave located 80 meters below the ocean's surface from a single satellite image. The new technique is a major advancement in the study of ...

The dead cores of two stars collided 130 million years ago in a galaxy somewhat far away. The collision was so extreme that it caused a wrinkle in space-time — a gravitational wave. That gravitational ...

Extreme ocean winds and wave heights are increasing around the globe, with the largest rise occurring in the Southern Ocean, research shows. Researchers from the University of Melbourne’s ...

For surfers, finding the “sweet spot,” the most powerful part of the wave, is part of the thrill and the challenge. Nick Pizzo, a Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California ...

Exemplary video of circular plastronic waves travelling on the gas-water interface of the plastron of an underwater superhydrophobic surface, patterned with micropillars of height 53 µm, radius 10 µm ...