Liquids can provide some especially tricky challenges for space travelers, but new research from the University of ...

Physics has a bit of a messy problem: There's matter missing in our universe. Something is there that we can't see but can detect! What could this mysterious substance be? A lot of astronomers are ...

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 ...

A demonstration of the key points of the required practical to measure the frequency, wavelength and speed of waves in a ripple tank for GCSE physics and combined science. Students are unlikely to ...

To calculate how this primordial plasma would have affected these ancient gravitational waves, Garg and his supervisor Ilya Dodin carefully analyzed the equations of Einstein's theory of ...

That's a pass for me. Of course even if you don't surf, there is still some cool physics involved in the act of surfing (let alone all the physics of wave formation).

Here is the code to generate the data for that graph. ld = np.linspace(ld_center-3e-9, ld_center+3e-9, num_ld) k = 2*np.pi/ld T = np.ones(ld.shape) for j in range(num_layers): T = T*(1-A)*np.cos(j ...

Fortunately for the kooks featured in the clips, there’s a lot physicists can do to help, and one surfer-slash-physicist has actually gone so far as to calculate how to hit a wave’s sweet spot.