When waves are moving across ice-covered seas, they can cause sheets of ice to bend and ultimately break. Understanding the ...

A recent preprint claims that we may someday be able to create gravitational waves in a lab. Through the use of “twisted” light, we could create powerful, high-frequency waves in a controlled setting.

Global climate models capture many of the processes that shape Earth's weather and climate. Based on physics, chemistry, ...

Physicists have finally confirmed a phenomenon that sounds like pure science fiction: waves that appear to bounce off a sudden change in time rather than a surface in space. The effect, known as a ...

Quantum physics tells us about the properties and behaviors of atomic and subatomic particles. But scientists have long held the belief that the rules that govern the microscopic world should also be ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Today we’re leaving the podcast studio to take you on a field trip to the LIGO Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of ...