Faraday waves, first observed by Michael Faraday in the 19th century, are standing waves that appear on the surface of a fluid when subjected to vertical oscillations. These waves characteristically ...

Not only do male alligators use Faraday waves to get a mate, but they may also produce the only examples (biological or physical) of these kind of waves in nature. When a male alligator decides its ...

Alligators flirt with physics. When males attract attention by quivering their spiky backs underwater, they create Faraday waves, researchers reported May 23 in Seattle at a meeting of the Acoustical ...