• Just as light can be thought of as both particles and waves, so can atoms.

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  • This year at CES -- as always -- there's been waves and waves of new technology.

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  • That successfully produced 22kW, though it was eventually destroyed by wind and waves.

    ECONOMIST: Ocean heat may be used to generate electricity

  • The group was at least eight miles (13 kilometers) from shore, and waves more than twice their size tossed them.

    NPR: US Tourists Survive Ship Sinking Near St. Lucia

  • Papara's black-sand beach picks up the south swell, and waves range from small and gentle to overhead, big and fast (check local conditions).

    BBC: Learning to surf in the land of giants

  • As a consequence, the wavelengths of the chilled atoms become very large (atoms, like everything else, are both particles and waves).

    ECONOMIST: Black holes on a desktop

  • Renewable energy sources such as wind and waves have plenty of backers.

    ECONOMIST: Nuclear power

  • In 1938 a hurricane flattened many homes on New York's Long Island, and waves as high as 50 feet pounded the shoreline all the way to Massachusetts.

    FORBES: Good Hands, Iron Fist

  • We have a ton of fun in the spring when the weather is warm and sunny watching our dogs run in the sand and waves chasing birds.

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  • "You're screaming your favourite actor's name and for that split moment, he turns and looks at you and waves - that's what it's all about, " she explains.

    BBC: The Shrine Auditorium

  • It is not just a matter of tide and waves.

    ECONOMIST: Beno?t Mandelbrot

  • There were waves like dragons and waves like sparrows.

    NEWYORKER: Max at Sea

  • Despite the wind and waves, an otherworldly calm pervades.

    BBC: Ireland��s outlying islands

  • To combat the surge in storms and waves, the government has built what locals call the Great Wall of Male: a concrete barrier 1.8-metre (6 ft) high that partly rings the capital.

    ECONOMIST: Letter from Maldives

  • The customs official shrugs and waves him on.

    ECONOMIST: Russia's western border

  • Battered by strong winds and waves, and more than 80km from the nearest island, it is little surprise that only a handful of people actually live here - despite the government putting in free wifi.

    BBC: Stepping ashore a disputed island

  • The XPS One 27 is not just for work, but also for entertainment with its Infinity Premium speakers and Waves MaxxAudio 4 audio technology that delivers deep, rich sound, complete with an expanded stereo field.

    ENGADGET: Dell announces XPS One 27 AIO running W8 on a touch display

  • After resistance from oil-producing countries led by Venezuela, from America, and from poor countries worried by costs, the final text includes no targets for the use of renewable energy sources such as wind, sunlight and waves.

    ECONOMIST: So what was achieved by ten days of talking?

  • Staff at Mayflower Marina in Devonport battled for a number of hours to upturn part of a wooden pontoon which had become trapped on sunken columns that anchor it after having been twisted by the wind and waves.

    BBC: Gale-force storms result in chaos

  • He smiles and waves at passersby.

    NPR: Violence Precedes Pakistan Election

  • On a notoriously violent patch of the Atlantic Ocean north of Scotland and 160 kilometers west of the Shetland Islands, where winds howl at 80 kilometers an hour and waves can run 30 meters high, a brutish red vessel rolls in a mounting breeze.

    FORBES: Going deep

  • She did not tell anyone that she spent much of her time looking out at the Pacific from empty beaches, some of them narrow with coarse sand, though farther north many of the beaches were rocky, desolate in the falling dusk, when seagulls circled hungrily and waves deposited dead seaweed.

    NEWYORKER: Alone

  • Since you have left, a continent rose from the sea, Lions arch was invaded by Ancient Karka race, a group called the Consortium arrived and are sending people to Fractals of the Mist with some unknown shady intentions, and something is stirring in the Northern Shiverpeaks and Ascalon sending waves and waves of refugees.

    FORBES: Has 'Guild Wars 2' Become Too Complicated?

  • Resort pioneer James Baillie opened Southern Ocean Lodge four years ago offering dramatic but low impact on the environment architecture and equally dramatic views of the surrounding cliffs and waves crashing ashore. (Riding those waves while I was there assorted dolphins.) All rooms face those ocean views, which become almost mesmerizing in winter, with storms rolling in as you sit by the living room fireplace staring out.

    FORBES: Australia Ups Its Luxury Level With Posh Hotels And Nature Retreats

  • Introduce variations in density into the gas, however, and the waves will be bent and scattered, just as they would be by irregularities in a pane of glass.

    ECONOMIST: Pulsars: In a wink | The

  • Tepco's own report on the disaster, by contrast, said there was no way it could have been prepared for a 9.0 magnitude quake and huge waves that triggered meltdowns and explosions at the plant.

    BBC: Fukushima accident: disaster response failed - report

  • Indeed, some at the meeting argued that if aliens were to use an astronomical phenomenon called gravitational lensing (in which the gravitational field of the sun bends and amplifies radio waves and light from Earth), human signals could be amplified to the point where even the light from cities would be visible.

    ECONOMIST: An argument over whether to send messages to aliens

  • Recurrent loss of life and property is caused by storm surges and extreme waves associated with severe tropical and extra-tropical cyclones.

    UNESCO: Building the Wealth of Nations

  • The ships sank Sunday during a fierce storm which generated hurricane-force winds and gigantic waves in the Black Sea and the Azov Sea to the north.

    CNN: Death toll rises in oil disaster

  • In addition, computers are faster and forecasters today have new tools in their arsenal, such as software that helps them predict the height of ocean waves and the interval between waves.

    CNN: Forecasting "The Perfect Storm"

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