Silber found that when a meteoroid or piece of space junk enters the atmosphere steeply—at an angle greater than 60 ...

Beyond proving the theory, this result has broader implications. Superradiance — the process of extracting energy from spin — ...

By adding a sound-mediated way to control light to the toolkit of light-based chips, University of Twente researchers have ...

In the assignment, students typically try to stand about three feet away from the sound source when measuring sound-intensity ...

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Scientists discovered strange light pulses that appear without buildup and resist interference, thanks to time’s one-way flow ...

When British physicist Roger Penrose suggested in 1969 that energy could be pulled from a rotating black hole, it sparked a ...

F or the first time, physicists have created a "black hole bomb" in the lab, providing evidence for the "Zel’dovich effect" ...

A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has solved the longstanding problem of a "dissonance" in gravitational waves ...

Technically speaking, sound is a simple phenomenon, consisting of compressional mechanical waves transmitted through substances, which exists universally in the non-equilibrated material world.