At the edge of Antarctica, where the air is clean and the human world thins out, a strange instrument listens to the planet. The antenna at Halley Research Station does not record whales, cracking ice ...

Extreme cosmic events such as colliding black holes or the explosions of stars can cause ripples in spacetime, so-called gravitational waves. Their discovery opened a new window into the universe. To ...

Towering walls of water traveling at the speed of a jetliner, with coastal communities from Japan and Hawaii to South America and the U.S. West Coast in their path. That was the frightening ...

Under a hazy gray sky on the first day of 1995, the Draupner natural gas platform in the North Sea was struck by something that had long been relegated to maritime folklore: an 84-foot wall of water ...

A major breakthrough in quantum technology has turned magnons, tiny magnetic waves once considered too short-lived for ...

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Over-the-air television and cellular streaming video are possible because of something you can’t see-electromagnetic radiation. Learn more about the waves that make video streaming and television ...