At hypersonic speeds, complexities occur when the gases interact with the surface of the vehicle, such as boundary layers and ...

When a mantis shrimp uses shock waves to strike and kill its prey, how does it prevent those shock waves from damaging its own tissues? Researchers at Northwestern University in the US have answered ...

In their paper, published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers reported that collisionless shock waves, which are easy to find throughout the universe, could be the cosmic engines ...

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