News articles tagged with 'wave'
Mechanism of wine swirling explained
— 21 Nov 2011 19:16 | PhysicsWine drinkers know that swirling a good vintage around in a glass aerates the wine and releases its bouquet. Just how the process - known as 'orbital shaking' - works, however, has…
TU Delft simulates breaking waves
— 28 Feb 2011 16:49 | TechnologyThe SWAN (Simulating WAves Nearshore) wave prediction model developed at TU Delft has been a huge international success for many years. This model predicts the distribution of wave…
Scientists find increase in microearthquakes after Chilean quake
— 26 Feb 2011 17:21 | Geology and palaeontologyBy studying seismographs from the earthquake that hit Chile last February, earth scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found a statistically significant increase of…
Solar experts detect waves in giant magnetic holes the size of the UK
— 24 Feb 2011 18:56 | AstronomyMassive waves in giant magnetic holes on the surface of the Sun have been discovered for the first time by solar scientists from the University of Sheffield and Queen's University Belfast,…
Surf's up: New research provides precise way to monitor ocean wave behaviour, shore impacts
— 29 Jan 2011 18:07 | EnvironmentEngineers have created a new type of 'stereo vision' to use in studying ocean waves as they pound against the shore, providing a better way to understand and monitor this violent, ever-changing…
Robotic ghost knifefish is born
— 19 Jan 2011 18:05 | TechnologyResearchers at Northwestern University have created a robotic fish that can move from swimming forward and backward to swimming vertically almost instantaneously by using a sophisticated,…
Storms, soccer matches hidden in seismometer noise
— 18 Jan 2011 16:54 | Geology and palaeontologyIf you wander up to a seismograph in a museum, unless you are lucky enough to be there right during an earthquake, all you will see is a small wiggly signal being recorded…
Princeton scientist recasts problems, offering new tools for old quandaries
— 17 Nov 2010 10:27 | PhysicsA Princeton scientist with an interdisciplinary bent has taken two well-known problems in mathematics and reformulated them as a physics question, offering new tools to solve challenges…
Artificial black holes made with metamaterials
— 17 Nov 2010 10:00 | PhysicsWhile our direct knowledge of black holes in the universe is limited to what we can observe from thousands or millions of light years away, a team of Chinese physicists has proposed…
Novel metamaterial vastly improves quality of ultrasound imaging
— 11 Nov 2010 11:41 | TechnologyUniversity of California, Berkeley, scientists have found a way to overcome one of the main limitations of ultrasound imaging - the poor resolution of the picture…