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 New Year’s Day, 1995, an instrument off the coast of Norway measured a rogue wave 84 feet high. Now, scientists are recreating these waves—albeit in miniature—in the lab. Rogue waves like these ...

If you’re at all familiar with Japanese art, you’ve likely seen "The Great Wave off Kanagawa," one of the most famous pieces in Japanese history. The woodblock print depicts a giant wave crashing into ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Researchers have created a miniature version of supernova shock waves in a lab here on Earth to ...

Collision course: head-on interaction of two solitons in a space-time representation. The horizontal axis is the position along the tank, the vertical position is time and the colours are the heights ...