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When Sand-Slithering Snakes Behave Like Light Waves
February 26, 2019
Desert snakes slithering across the sand at night can encounter obstacles such as plants or twigs that alter…
Variations in seafloor create freak ocean waves
February 11, 2019
Florida State University researchers have found that abrupt variations in the seafloor can cause dangerous ocean waves known…
New device uses sound waves in pristine crystals to store information
April 11, 2018
Yale scientists used laser light to gain access to long-lived sound waves in crystalline solids as the basis…
Flying slime: Harmful algal blooms can become airborne
January 26, 2018
Waves lapping against the shoreline is always a pretty scene, but it may also be a way for…
Rogue Wave Analysis Supports Investigation of the El Faro Sinking
September 21, 2017
A new analysis done to support the investigation into the 2015 sinking of the El Faro cargo ship has calculated…
Researchers image quasiparticles that could lead to faster circuits, higher bandwidths
June 8, 2017
Zhe Fei pointed to the bright and dark vertical lines running across his computer screen. This nano-image, he…
Sun’s atmospheric currents may help predict solar storms
March 29, 2017
Scientists have presented the first direct, observational evidence of atmospheric currents — similar to Rossby waves found on…
FSU technology tracks the ocean current
March 14, 2017
A Florida State University researcher has developed a new technology that can track the oceans’ currents and surface…
“Field patterns” as a new mathematical object
February 20, 2017
University of Utah mathematicians propose a theoretical framework to understand how waves and other disturbances move through materials…
New metamaterial paves way for terahertz technologies
October 25, 2016
A research team led by UCLA electrical engineers has developed an artificial composite material to control of higher-frequency…
The nanostructured cloak of invisibility
October 21, 2016
Most lenses, objectives, eyeglass lenses, and lasers come with an anti-reflective coating. Unfortunately, this coating works optimally only…
Researchers find explanation for interacting giant, hidden ocean waves
September 29, 2016
In certain parts of the ocean, towering, slow-motion rollercoasters called internal tides trundle along for miles, rising and…
Holograms with sound
September 23, 2016
Sound can now be structured in three dimensions. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and…
Scientists move one step closer to creating an invisibility cloak
July 21, 2016
Researchers from QMUL’s School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, worked with UK industry to demonstrate for the…
Researchers develop key power-splitting component for terahertz waves
June 30, 2016
One of the most basic components of any communications network is a power splitter that allows a signal…
Understanding Rogue Ocean Waves May be Simple After All
June 22, 2016
An international team of scientists has developed a relatively simple mathematical explanation for the rogue ocean waves that…
New insights into the dynamics of past climate change
October 15, 2015
A new study finds that changing climate in the polar regions can affect conditions in the rest of…
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