Researchers have found that a swirling water vortex can force opposing waves to form rotating lines of stillness across an ...

In the quirky quantum world, particles can be affected by forces that they never directly encounter. A classic example is the ...

When it comes to river surfing in Colorado, not all waves are created equal. A discussion about standing waves at the Vail Town Council’s August 20 meeting has had the unintended consequence of ...

The idea of a surf wave in Gore Creek has been found to be so crazy it just might work, but town staff says there are limitations and no guarantee it would be as successful as other regional parks. On ...

Where there's water, there are waves. But what if you could bend water waves to your will to move floating objects? Scientists have now developed a technique to merge waves in a water tank to produce ...

Lines of momentarily flat water extend outward and rotate, in the opposite direction to the flow of the vortex. The left video shows the pattern from the experiment, while the right video shows the ...