Summer brings with it the sight of surfers moving seamlessly across wave crests, with ocean waters carrying them along ...

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Last year, onlookers observed a startling site on China’s Qiantang River: waves forming a grid-like pattern. Dubbed the “matrix tide,” this complex wave pattern was caused by the river ...

An unusual kind of water wave can repeatedly toss a water droplet into the air thousands of times without breaking it. For the past decade, Nicolas Mujica at the University of Chile and his ...

Researchers manipulated water waves to move ping pong balls with a level of precision that seems straight out of a sci-fi movie. Reading time 3 minutes Imagine hopping onto a large floatie in a lake ...