A new study, published in Physical Review Letters, reports that scientists have successfully imaged the formation of ...

Nearly every object we interact with in our lives has a mass, but where does this mass come from? Modern physics says matter ...

Suggested Citation:" Executive Summary." National Research Council. 2003. Frontiers in High Energy Density Physics: The X-Games of Contemporary Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

High energy density (HED) physics has critical applications in areas such as inertial confinement fusion and the stewardship of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile. Congress has requested that the ...

Quantum computing has crossed a line that classical machines cannot easily follow, pushing simulations of matter and forces into regimes that even the largest supercomputers struggle to touch. Instead ...

This article reports on research described in a paper in Nature Communications that was retracted on 23 October at the request of its authors due to an error in ...

Technology advances: the energy density of lithium-ion batteries has increased from 80 Wh/kg to around 300 Wh/kg since the beginning of the 1990s. (Courtesy: B Wang) Researchers have succeeded in ...