Animation major Vikki Brown works with the scientists at GWPAC (short for Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Center) to illustrate their concepts. Photographed in Fullerton on Friday, Nov. 1 ...

Producing high-quality and realistic water wave animations that interact with complex objects is often computationally expensive with designers frequently opting for methods that are fast to ...

In the experiment, which mimicked certain types of cosmic shock waves, protons reached energies up to 80,000 electron volts, physicists report August 19 in Nature Physics.

Liquids can provide some especially tricky challenges for space travelers, but new research from the University of ...

“Gravitational wave detection is still in its infancy,” says Manfred Paulini, professor of physics and associate dean at Carnegie Mellon University.

This project uses a servo motor and small slinky to demonstrate what a longitudinal wave looks like. Additionally it shows the crests and troughs of that longitudinal wave. It can also be utilized to ...

Quantum physics just got less complicated: Wave-particle duality and quantum uncertainty are same thing Date: December 19, 2014 Source: Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University ...

Kip Thorne and Barry Barish of Caltech and Rainer Weiss of MIT won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work using LIGO to observe gravitational waves.