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A new study published in Physical Review Letters explores the possibility that a strongly supercooled, first-order phase transition in the early universe could explain gravitational wave signals ...

A curious look at a wave that helped reshape physics, explained in a clear and educational way.

Results show shock-wave behaviors across a range of materials can explained by a common framework useful for interpreting shock experiments.

A new study by scientists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) shows that when a pressure disturbance moves across an ultrasoft elastic material, such as a ...