Computer simulations exploring the effects of shock waves on crystalline HMX, performed by Ryan Austin, a staff scientist in Engineering’s Computational Engineering Division, and a team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers, are featured on the cover of the May 14 issue of the Journal of Applied Physics.

A fluid's complexity and the questions to be answered determine the right technology

Kristi Gaines and Su Shin found a gap in research related to clothing designed specifically to help children with autism cope with their environments.

Planets with volcanic activity are considered better candidates for life than worlds without such heated internal goings-on.

A space-based system that relies on lasers to generate and deliver energy to spacecraft has won a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) professor a U.S. patent and could become a first-line defense against asteroids on a collision course with Earth.

Key sign of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and evidence for a long-debated quantum phenomenon.

Brain generalizes millions of colors to 'best' versions of basic colors, research suggests.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started delivering physics data on June 3 for the first time in 27 months.

Photonics advancement aims to improve our ability to detect trace amounts of molecules

Stereophotogrammetry provides unique window into clouds, thus improving climate models.

Physicists at the University of Washington have conducted the most precise and controlled measurements yet of the interaction between the atoms and molecules that comprise air and the type of carbon surface used in battery electrodes and air filters — key information for improving those technologies.

One of the world's leading aerospace companies has selected Mississippi's flagship research university to host its Stitched Resin Infused Composite Research Center.