A team of engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed ways to rapidly evaluate new thermal protection materials ...

From the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 to the now-routine return of commercial spacecraft, heat shields—formally called thermal protection systems—are critical for protecting ...

A team of engineers at Sandia National Laboratories developed a rapid method for simulating heat shield materials in ...

Precise underwater navigation is critical for autonomous and remotely operated deep-sea vehicles, yet variations in seawater ...

A new acoustic levitation technique combines sound waves and electric charge to control multiple particles without physical ...

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Determining the "loudest recorded sound" depends on how you define sound and on which measurements you choose to include.

Joined by Luke Fischer (CEO and co-founder, SkyFi), Bob Pavelko (Intuitive Machines), and Bradley Cheetham (CEO and ...

Let’s start with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)—arguably the largest, most ...

NASA built an X-42A hydrogen-powered scramjet to reach speeds of Mach 9.6 for a brief moment in 2004. Therefore, this new unmanned aircraft would be more of an optimization and refitting of an ...

Sound is usually treated as the most familiar of physical phenomena, the background noise of daily life rather than a ...

Deep inside Earth, researchers see signs that the solid inner core may be arranged in multiple chemical layers far below.