Think of gravity waves as waves moving through stable air. When you look at waves in the ocean, there are high parts and low parts to that wave. Clouds need lift to materialize in the atmosphere.

Radio waves move outward and are detected by lightning antennas. The radio wave moves outward and gets picked up by a wide network of antennas on the ground.

Vibrations known as Rayleigh waves then travel outward from the pulse, moving the ground up and down as they go. For decades, scientists have understood the vertical component of ocean-storm ...

By announcing the first detection of gravitational waves, ... But some doubted we’d ever detect them directly, because although they ripple spacetime, like rings moving outward in a pond, ...

Using nothing more than waves, researchers were able to move this ping-pong ball around a tank of water. ... an outward flowing current carried the ping-pong ball away from the wave source.

The waves spread out in a triangle, with maximum amplitude along the edges of the V-shaped region and a variety of ripples within it. Remarkably, the angle at the apex of the V is fixed at about ...

MIT scientists: Heat can act like sound wave when moving through pencil lead Exotic "second sound" phenomenon could one day help cool future microelectronics.

In their models, the cosmic obstacle that produced lopsided shock waves like the ones Chandra observed was a shell of gas particles, which the dying star had coughed outward into space on a blast ...

This bizarre phenomenon, known as “second sound”, has intrigued scientists for decades.Now, for the first time, researchers at MIT have captured an image of heat behaving like a wave ...

In the study, researchers found that the shock wave is accelerating at different rates, with one section collapsing back toward the origin of the stellar explosion, or supernova, in what the study ...

The researchers also found that heat waves are becoming more frequent, to an average of 98 per year between 2016 and 2020, from 75 per year between 1979 and 1983.