BUFFALO, N.Y. — Last year, onlookers observed a startling site on China’s Qiantang River: waves forming a grid-like pattern. Dubbed the “matrix tide,” this complex wave pattern was caused by the river ...

CU Boulder applied mathematician Mark Hoefer and colleagues answer a longstanding question of how to understand tidal bores in multiple dimensions The photos and videos were all over Chinese social ...

An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 11, 2025 shows a view of the tidal flat after the tidal bore of Qiantang River receded, in Haining City, east China's Zhejiang Province. The Qiantang River tidal ...

About this time each year, folks in China's eastern-shore-hugging Zhejiang Province gather to watch the weird spectacle of a hulking wave rolling up the Qiantang River. The wave is what's known as a ...

About 400 musicians from China gather in Yanguan, Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, for an inaugural concert of the newly founded Tide Philharmonic Orchestra on Nov 16. CHINA DAILY The Qiantang River in ...

Occurring on only a few dozen rivers around the world, tidal bores are as rare as they are intriguing. Michael Berry outlines the science behind this natural phenomenon and describes his sighting in ...