Connect one pendulum to another with a spring, and in time the motions of the two swinging levers will become coordinated.This behavior of coupled oscillators---long a fascination of physicists and ...

Many physiological behaviours of cells are repeated periodically in time, such as hormone secretion, second messenger signalling, cell-division cycles and circadian rhythms. Oscillatory behaviour is a ...

During the hot summer of 2020, confined to his Pasadena home during the COVID-19 pandemic, National Medal of Science-winning applied physicist Amnon Yariv took frequent and long showers to cool off. A ...

Ocean-atmosphere oscillations are naturally occurring cycles affecting sea surface temperature and precipitation. They are among the key reasons why some years are dry and plagued by drought while ...

Since Hans Berger first recorded neural activity from the human scalp with an electroencephalograph (EEG), in 1924, neuroscientists have been trying to make sense of the electrical pulses emitted by ...