The largest particle collider in the US, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), has ...
APL’s involvement in unmanned aircraft safety traces back to its earlier work on collision avoidance for manned aviation.
The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...
Bobsleigh tracks are made of reinforced concrete topped with ice. Weather conditions can change the conditions of the ice, ...
A portable detector the size of a cookie box reveals in real time the cosmic particles that pass through your body every ...
New technologies tested at the Deaflympics in Tokyo are creating new ways of experience the atmosphere at sporting events.
The loudest black hole collision ever recorded has just given Einstein’s theory of general relativity its hardest test so far. The event, dubbed GW250114, produced a record-smashing signal-to-noise ...
For a mere moment after the Big Bang, no neutrons or protons are thought to have existed. These neutral and positively charged particles, respectively, make up the center of all atoms today. But ...
A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...
A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, may harbor a hidden ocean and life.
We describe electricity as a flow, but that’s not what happens in a typical wire. Physicists have begun to induce electrons to act like fluids, an effort that could illuminate new ways of thinking ...