The experiment will give scientists a first-ever look at how waves at the lagoon mix with buoyant plumes, or masses of fresher water that enter saline regions during river outflow, the team said.

The double slit experiment is one of the most fascinating and mind-bending experiments in physics, forever changing how we ...

He decided to find out for himself. That is why, in 1957, Walter Munk designed a global, real-life wave-watching experiment. Professor Munk was not the first scientist to study swells.

This is the most massive black hole binary we’ve observed through gravitational waves, and it presents a real challenge to ...

A new experiment captures a single parcel of light morphing between wave and particle. Published in the April Physical Review A, the experiment dissects a light pulse associated with a single ...

Many of science’s greatest achievements have been discoveries of new kinds of waves or new insights into wave motion. Identifying just the Top 10 such discoveries (or ideas) is therefore ...

One of the most famous experiments in quantum physics, which first showed how particles can bizarrely behave like waves, has now been carried out on the largest molecules ever. Researchers have ...

The LIGO experiment, which found the first gravitational waves in 2016, can detect shorter waves, like those made when two star-sized black holes smash together.

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) experiment was conceived in the 1980s, construction began in 1994, and science-grade operations began in 2002.

While this particular experiment isn’t expected to detect gravitational waves during its months-long science operation, the spacecraft is testing fundamental technologies that will allow us to ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong, hosts of the Short Wave podcast, about the mysteries of multicellular organisms, a house built with diapers, and the physics of gummy candy.

In the April 1981 issue of Popular Science, ... A gravity-wave experiment had been planned for the International Solar Polar Mission. But, according to MIT’s Irwin Shapiro, ...