Heat is not supposed to behave like this. In everyday life, warmth seeps and diffuses, spreading from hot to cold in a slow, ...

Brazil’s first orbital launch attempt failed on Monday night (22), when the Hanbit-Nano rocket, developed by South Korean startup Innospace, suffered an anomaly about two minutes after lifting off ...

Deep beneath our feet, far beyond the reach of drills or submersibles, Earth hides a solid metal heart that behaves in ways geophysicists have struggled to explain. New experiments now suggest that a ...

UChicago paleontologists use CT scanning and simulations to show how a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor could hear ...

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

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 ...

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 have developed ways to rapidly evaluate new thermal protection materials ...

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

The X-1’s fuselage was designed to resemble a .50 caliber bullet—one of the only shapes known to have stable flight at ...

Today, it takes 15 hours to fly from Sydney to Los Angeles. But what if that time could be shortened? What if crossing half the planet only takes one hour? How would we view the world? That’s the ...