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 ...

To the editor: A front-page article describes a project potentially beginning within a few months to build a “surf park” (“Big wave machine — by the sea — rolling into El Segundo,” Oct. 25). This will ...

The surfing competition for the Paris 2024 Olympics will not be staged at any of France’s famous mainland surf spots. Not at Biarritz or Anglet or even the thumping sand-bottom beach break at Hossegor ...

At first, I thought this old stripped-down Toyota Tacoma with an enormous wooden plow was some improvised war machine, but its mission is far more wholesome and happy. The truck was modded for a job I ...

Electron microscope image of the superfluid wave tank used in the experiments (blue) coupled to an optical fibre which brings laser light in and out of the device. The zoom-in shows the photonic ...

Big-wave surfers scour the world for the gnarliest, most terrifying waves on the planet – and now that this year’s hunt is over, it’s time to celebrate. For a long time, the world’s best big-wave ...