Terrifying ocean Devastating freak waves the size of a 10-storey building can be more common than previously thought, say researchers. The findings, by civil engineer Dr Alessandro Toffoli, of ...

Journal of Coastal Research, SPECIAL ISSUE NO. 103. Global Topics and New Trends in Coastal Research: Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering (SUMMER 2020), pp. 839-842 (4 pages) In order to improve the ...

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The Copenhagen Interpretation: This interpretation is a little bit like quantum physics’ answer to the old Zen question: If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a ...

Time mirrors are very cool. They seem a bit magical, undoing the damage that time has done, at least under the right circumstances. For light and for water waves, we know how to make a mirror that ...

In 2005, a student working in the fluid physicist Yves Couder’s laboratory in Paris discovered by chance that tiny oil droplets bounced when plopped onto the surface of a vibrating oil bath. Moreover, ...