Light's behavior seems counterintuitive. That is, until you figure out light is a wave. The way light behaves can seem very counterintuitive, and many physicists would agree with that, but once you ...

Seismic waves generated by tornadoes when they touch down could be used to measure a twister's intensity, according to a new study. The new research examined a catastrophic tornado that struck Joplin, ...

Shock wave studies allow researchers to achieve the warm dense matter that's found only in the extreme conditions around stars and created in the laboratory for inertial confinement fusion research, ...