A typical 14-year-old goes to the beach to play in the waves. But Daniel Feeny went to a beach near Pescadero, Calif., to study them. Using a homemade rig of springs and balls set up in a tide pool, he showed that the force of the waves there doesn’t dictate the diversity of marine life close to shore.
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