The woman in the Austin airport gave us a perplexed look. “What ya’ll got in those big bags?” she asked in her thick Southern accent. Surfboards, of course. Texas isn’t known as a surfing hotspot, ...

(Joel Sharpe/Moment/Getty Images) There's a huge amount of clean energy locked away in ocean waves, if only we could find a ...

Researchers from Australia’s University of Queensland have made a microscopic “ocean” on a silicon chip to miniaturise the study of wave dynamics. The device, made at UQ’s School of Mathematics and ...

Ocean waves are a vast and steady source of renewable energy, but capturing their power efficiently has long frustrated engineers. A researcher at The University of Osaka has now explored a bold new ...

The coastal city of El Segundo is an unlikely location for a massive, new artificial surf park. Other California surf parks with machine-powered wave pools are inland, far from natural waves in places ...

The challenges faced by energy harvesting powered by ocean waves. How a new design overcomes the existing limitations. The tested performance of the new approach. There seem to be no limits to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Person surfing at the Palm Springs Surf Club. (David Fouts/For The Times) The coastal city of El Segundo is an unlikely location ...