Researchers have discovered various topological structures in water waves (skyrmions, merons, Möbius and vortices with ...

What causes the windy-day phenomenon? On windy days, have you ever noticed several long, parallel lines of foam on a lake? They are generally in the direction of the prevailing wind. This pattern, ...

Lake waves are something we’re all familiar with, but we tend to think only about waves on the water surface. There are actually waves deep beneath the lake surface that can have profound ...

Ripples, like ones produced by raindrops falling in a puddle, are also called capillary waves. Studied since antiquity, they ...

The study revealed evidence of ancient liquid water on Mars, indicated by wave ripples preserved in the Martian rock record. In 2022, NASA's Curiosity Rover discovered two sets of wave ripples at ...