For more than a century, scientists have known that waves can behave in ways that seem to defy common sense, from freak walls ...

Classical physics theories suggest that when two or more electromagnetic waves interfere destructively (i.e., with their electric fields canceling each other out), they cannot interact with matter. In ...

During 2024, onlookers observed a startling sight on China's Qiantang River: waves forming a grid-like pattern. Dubbed the "matrix tide," this complex wave pattern was caused by the river's famed ...