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Inside the “Draupner Wave” – an historically (and abnormally) large wave, which smashed into an offshore oil platform in ...
A record-breaking 17.6-meter rogue wave off British Columbia highlights the importance of wind dynamics in wave formation ...
The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.
Ripples in space-time signalling the largest merger of two black holes ever seen challenge current understanding of the ...
A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...
Surfing is a lot like fishing in that stories tend to grow over time. Here are six whoppers that still have us wondering.
“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...
Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.
Once again, although this clip was posted recently, this was from a few years back. Still, seeing this freakishly large wave ...
One such event is a colossal storm that generated the largest waves ever recorded in human history. These monumental waves, towering at heights unimagined before, bring with them stories of natural ...
Clouds Are Cool, but Have You Ever Seen One Like This? A “roll cloud” spotted off the coast of Portugal looked like something out of a movie. Here’s the science behind it.
Europe sizzled in its first major heat wave of the summer on Tuesday, as Barcelona recorded its hottest June in over a century and the summit of Paris’ iconic Eiffel Tower was closed to visitors ...