A team of engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed ways to rapidly evaluate new thermal protection materials ...
Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.
The constancy of the speed of light is a pillar of modern physics, but questions persist about its absolute universality. Advanced theories, seeking to unify general relativity and quantum mechanics, ...
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 new concept for energy transfer between gravitational waves and light. When massive cosmic objects such as black holes merge or neutron stars crash into one another, they can produce gravitational ...
From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...
Determining the "loudest recorded sound" depends on how you define sound and on which measurements you choose to include.
Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?
A new acoustic levitation technique combines sound waves and electric charge to control multiple particles without physical ...
US Army validates a new rainfield simulator with a hypersonic test, improving insight into how vehicles perform in extreme ...
The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...