Washington State University professor William Band bumped into George Duvall, considered the father of American shock wave science, at an industry get-together in Seattle.

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Researchers demonstrated a way to to manipulate electrons using pulses of light that last less than a trillionth of a second to record electrons bypassing a physical barrier almost instantaneously -- ...

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A new paper uses a simplified model to prove that gravity can be unified between quantum and standard physics. The simpler ...

Analyzing massive datasets from nuclear physics experiments can take hours or days to process, but researchers are working to ...

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Quantum scientists have cracked a longstanding problem by devising a method to speed up measurements without losing accuracy, ...

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A n experiment has visualized a prediction about objects traveling at the speed of light known as the Penrose-Terrell Effect, first made over 60 years ago.

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Instead of using the Large Hadron Collider to smash atoms together, researchers briefly turned lead into gold by facilitating ...