The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

For more than 50 years, scientists have dreamed of seeing the hidden patterns that govern the motion of nonlinear waves—the ...

University of Queensland researchers have created a microscopic "ocean" on a silicon chip to miniaturize the study of wave ...

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in solar physics by providing the first direct evidence of small-scale torsional ...

Physicists have analyzed two enormous black hole mergers that happened one month apart and have come up with tantalizing ...

Scientists have finally found direct evidence of small-scale torsional Alfvén waves in the Sun’s corona, solving an ...

FROnt Surface Type Irradiator, or FROSTI, will allow future detectors to run at higher laser powers, reducing noise and expanding capabilities ...

Researchers have directly observed torsional Alfvén waves twisting through the Sun’s corona — magnetic waves first predicted ...

Asymmetric collapse: Simulations of core-collapse supernovae indicate that existing gravitational-wave detectors such as LIGO could spot telltale signs of cosmic distortions known as gravitational ...

For generations, scientists believed that the West Coast’s two great earthquake engines — the Cascadia subduction zone and ...