The kilonova briefly mimicked the conditions immediately following the Big Bang, and allowed scientists to confirm the source ...

Traditionally, the most widely used approach to testing new explosives is the so-called drop weight impact test—dropping a ...

Fermilab engineers are developing innovative solutions to build durable particle detector targets for neutrino experiments.

When we go backwards in time through the history of the cosmos, the distances and volumes shrink, while the average energy ...

Our knowledge of physics — gained through astrophysical experiments, or in laboratories via machines such as particle ...

An international team of researchers has successfully produced an isotope of the superheavy element livermorium - a feat they ...

This week, researchers hypothesized that human culture is distinguished from cultures of other species like whales by unique ...

It’s been the staple of various film or TV show plots, though some might remember it more specifically as being the devious ...

A plumber’s truck exploded on a quiet residential street in Queens Friday morning – damaging several homes and nearby cars, according to fire officials and sources. Wild videos showed the unoccupied ...

Lisa Jones-Engel, PETA’s senior science adviser on primate experimentation, said that even after the investigations in the ...

The result was one of the most famous experiments in scientific history and a discovery that, alongside other contributions by Newton, gave birth to the modern field of optics. In perhaps the most ...

Chemists have synthesized a highly complex natural molecule through a new strategy of functionalizing normally inert ...