There are many glorious science-based terms when it comes to surfing. We all talk about swells, of course, the underwater energy that creates a breaking wave. But we'll look at swell angles and ...

A ripple tank can be used to investigate the frequency close frequencyThe number of waves produced each second. The unit of frequency is hertz (Hz)., wavelength close wavelengthThe length of a single ...

The incandescent light bulb was one of the first early applications of electricity, and it’s hard to underestimate its importance. But before the electric light, people didn’t live in darkness — they ...

The interface between two facets of an artificial material known as a “Weyl phononic crystal” can not only negatively refract an airborne sound wave, it does so without reflecting it at all. This ...

It's faint, but squint a little and you might see the unusual sight of a rainbow pointing upwards in the skies above Sandy Bay, near Hobart. Yoav Daniel Bar-Ness has seen many rainbows in Tasmania, ...

Find the Solved MCQs Practice Paper for CBSE Class 10th Physics Chapter ‘Light - Reflection and Refraction’. All the questions are framed as per the trend of Semester Assessments. These questions will ...

In my previous Photography Snapshot, I discussed the importance of light and how it bounces to create images. We discovered that the most primitive form of photography was the camera obscura, which ...

This week, thanks to a question from Temple, New Hampshire resident Lorraine von Sneidern, the Curiosity Desk not only went chasing answers, we also went chasing rainbows. "Why are the rainbows that I ...