Researchers discover collisionless shock waves as cosmic engines accelerating subatomic particles in space to extreme speeds.

When a mantis shrimp uses shock waves to strike and kill its prey, how does it prevent those shock waves from ... The most surprising result, Espinosa tells Physics World, was the formation of a flat ...

In a fun experiment, Max Koch, a researcher at the University of Göttingen in Germany—who also happens to be passionate about ...

Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts to both answer philosophical questions about the nature of the universe and provide solutions to ...

This is termed relativistic speeds—where particles are moving so fast that the usual laws of physics (like regular ... can be accelerated by these shock waves, they need to contain a certain ...