Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Waves cause a disturbance of the medium through which they travel. This allows them to carry energy. The quantity of ...

A recent study has mathematically clarified how the presence of crystals and gas bubbles in magma affects the propagation of ...

However, many of these previously unseen properties became observable with the discovery of gravitational waves. "The properties of neutron stars imprint onto the gravitational waves they emit.

Residents have been evacuated, properties flooded and coastal infrastructure ... CCTV footage showed waves bursting through glass doors after 11pm on Tuesday. “It has just been devastating ...