Light's behavior seems counterintuitive. That is, until you figure out light is a wave. The way light behaves can seem very counterintuitive, and many physicists would agree with that, but once you ...

Shock wave studies allow researchers to achieve the warm dense matter that's found only in the extreme conditions around stars and created in the laboratory for inertial confinement fusion research, ...

Atmospheric teleconnections or wave trains, such as the well-known PNA (Pacific–North America) pattern, are of great importance because they can link weather and climate between regions separated by ...

Scientists have directly observed optical vortices—'dark points' in light waves—moving faster than light for the first time, confirming a long-standing prediction. The phenomenon does not violate ...

As the Olympics get going in earnest this week, not everyone's attention is focused on the host city, Paris. Surf fans are heading to Tahiti, which is half a world away in French Polynesia. Why? Well, ...

Every so often mariners report the sighting of a huge wave towering up to 30 m above the regular swells of the ocean surface. No one is sure why these rogue waves form, but now physicists in the US ...