In September 2015, a vibration lasting just one-fifth of a second changed the history of physics. It was the first direct detection of gravitational waves — perturbations in the geometry of space-time ...

New theoretical work suggests that the pattern of light emitted by atoms could be used to detect gravitational waves at ...

An international team of scientists has developed a new analysis of how sound waves behave, revealing surprising effects that ...

A new study by scientists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) shows that when a pressure disturbance moves across an ultrasoft elastic material, such as a ...

A team of researchers have extended Berry’s well-known geometric-dynamic decomposition from the wave-evolution phase to a distinct class of wave scattering problems Wave scattering events can now be ...

A plasma experiment succeeded in twisting light-like waves, and revealed a new, previously unknown rule of extreme physics.

If you throw a pebble into a pond, ripples spread out from where it went in. These ripples are waves travelling through the water. Like ocean waves, these ripples are transverse waves because the ...