“I wasn’t smart enough,” says Geordie Rose of his days getting his physics Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia. “Mathematicians and physicists can wrap their heads around things that are ...

This installment of Retrotechtacular looks at a video lecture that is much more substantive than the usual fare. [Dr. J.N. Shive] was a researcher at Bell Labs at a time when just about every ...

The Oasis will reopen with a working wave machine, the council has confirmed A wave machine will be reinstalled during the refurbishment of a leisure centre, if plans are approved, the council has ...

The shive wave machine is a torsional oscillator consisting of many rods attached to a twisting wire. Many aspects of waves can be seen with it, including travelling waves, wave speed, and ...