More than half a century ago, Sir Roger Penrose envisioned a scenario in which energy could be extracted from a black hole ...

More than 50 years ago, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Sir Roger Penrose proposed an extraordinary idea. He suggested that it ...

Quantum physics has a long history of producing results that seem impossible until someone finds a way to watch them happen in a completely different setting. Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of ...

On October 3, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish the Nobel Prize in physics for directly detecting gravitational waves—wrinkles in ...

Wobbling on the waves Schematic diagram of the gyroscopic wave energy converter showing the flywheel coupled to an electric generator on a floating platform. (Courtesy: T. Iida, Journal of Fluid ...

Researchers report their insights on the emerging field of complex frequencies excitations, a recently introduced scheme to control light, sound and other wave phenomena beyond conventional limits.

Analog machine learning hardware offers a promising alternative to digital counterparts as a more energy efficient and faster platform. Wave physics based on acoustics and optics is a natural ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe, but they aren’t always silent. When two black holes are close enough to each other, they spiral towards one another, eventually ...

Tiny waves, big implications: Electron microscope image of the superfluid wave tank used in the experiments (blue) coupled to an optical fibre which brings laser light in and out of the device. The ...