The Universe experienced a rapid expansion just after its birth, a phenomenon called cosmic inflation. This brief but intense ...

Much like mermaids, the kraken, or the hafgufa, rogue waves have been regarded as a maritime myth. These waves do not always ...

In November 2020, a freak wave appeared, lifting a lone buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters (58 feet) high.

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Artificial intelligence is poised to take LIGO's search for gravitational waves to the next level, with Google's help.

By analyzing 18 years of high-frequency laser measurements from the Ekofisk oil platform in the central North Sea, we reached ...

Australian astrophysicists have teamed with hundreds of scientists across the globe to chart the behaviours of some of the ...

A magnitude 8.3 earthquake triggered a tremendous landslide into the ocean and the wave that followed reached 1,740 feet ...

Renowned experimental physicist, Nobel laureate and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, ...