Gold has a reputation for being one of the most stable, predictable elements in the periodic table, but under crushing ...

We've all felt it—that uncomfortable pressure building in our ears as a plane climbs toward cruising altitude, followed by that satisfying "pop" when everything suddenly equalizes. It's such a ...

The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that ...

Research using the world’s most energetic laser has shed light on the properties of highly compressed matter – essential to understanding the structure of giant planets and stars, and to develop ...

Light exerts a certain amount of pressure onto a body: sun sails could thus power space probes in the future. However, when light particles (photons) hit an individual molecule and knock out an ...

Operating a new device named the Fusion Z-pinch Experiment 3, or FuZE-3, Zap Energy has now achieved plasmas with electron ...

Physicists at the University of Osaka have unveiled a breakthrough theoretical framework that uncovers the hidden physical ...