Shock waves should not be shocking—engineers across scientific fields need to be able to precisely predict how the instant ...

Light's behavior seems counterintuitive. That is, until you figure out light is a wave. The way light behaves can seem very counterintuitive, and many physicists would agree with that, but once you ...

Storm surge is the No. 1 cause of deaths and damage during a hurricane, yet detailed storm surge forecasts are difficult to ...

In the right combinations and conditions, two-dimensional materials can host intriguing and potentially valuable quantum ...

Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and ...

As the Olympics get going in earnest this week, not everyone's attention is focused on the host city, Paris. Surf fans are heading to Tahiti, which is half a world away in French Polynesia. Why? Well, ...

Cosmic testbed A computer simulation of the black-hole collision that produced the first gravitational wave signal to be detected, GW150914. (Courtesy: Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) project/LIGO ...

The first discovery of a quasicrystal 13 disproved the long-standing conjecture in condensed matter physics that only crystalline materials with translational symmetry could be densely packed and ...

Down at the level of atoms and electrons, quantum physics describes the behavior of the very smallest objects. Solar panels, LED lights, your mobile phone and MRI scanners in hospitals: all of these ...