Summer brings with it the sight of surfers moving seamlessly across wave crests, with ocean waters carrying them along ...

Where there's water, there are waves. But what if you could bend water waves to your will to move floating objects? Scientists have now developed a technique to merge waves in a water tank to produce ...

Researchers manipulated water waves to move ping pong balls with a level of precision that seems straight out of a sci-fi movie. Reading time 3 minutes Imagine hopping onto a large floatie in a lake ...

In a nutshell: Researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have demonstrated the ability to manipulate water waves, allowing them to precisely control objects floating on the ...

Floating object detection encompasses the identification, localisation and tracking of natural and anthropogenic matter—ranging from driftwood and algal blooms to plastic debris and oil slicks—on the ...

Sweden’s coasts are facing a UFO problem—reports of "unidentified floating objects"—and they're creating unexpected issues at sea. Reading time 2 minutes Well, here’s something you don’t find floating ...

A hexagon-shaped plastic structure was used to generate waves that merged to form complex patterns on the water surface in a tank for an experiment co-led by Nanyang Technological University, ...