Physicists have finally turned a long standing thought experiment into a laboratory reality, showing that electromagnetic ...

Over two decades ago, a rogue wave, documented by scientific instruments, struck the Draupner oil platform in the North Sea.

A recent preprint claims that we may someday be able to create gravitational waves in a lab. Through the use of “twisted” light, we could create powerful, high-frequency waves in a controlled setting.

On May 24, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) began an 18-month campaign to detect the most distant collisions between black holes and neutron stars ever ...

Recent groundbreaking studies have uncovered that sonic waves can induce vivid hallucinations when applied in controlled lab environments. This surprising discovery opens new avenues for understanding ...

Until recently, gravitational waves could have been a figment of Einstein’s imagination. Before they were detected, these ripples in spacetime existed only in the physicist’s general theory of ...

A virtual laboratory under development at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro aims to let students experiment with physics concepts without physically being in a lab. Computer simulations ...

Tiny waves, big implications: Electron microscope image of the superfluid wave tank used in the experiments (blue) coupled to an optical fibre which brings laser light in and out of the device. The ...