Collision avoidance: mimicking a neuron in locusts has allowed researchers to create a new collision avoidance system. (Courtesy: Jennifer M McCann/Penn State) A new collision detector that mimics the ...

FRANKFURT. For the moment, the accelerators at CERN are at rest during the "second long shutdown". During this time, the accelerators undergo upgrades and refurbishments so that more particles can be ...

A big part of physics is understanding collisions and how they're not all the same. COLLISIONS! A big part of physics is understanding collisions and how they're not all the same. Mass, momentum, and ...

Ideas of high-energy particle physics have been borrowed for a device that might bring insight into fundamental questions of chemical physics — the molecular synchrotron. A whole number of ...

Scientists at the University of Toronto today joined their 1,200-plus colleagues at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in celebrating a new detection of gravitational waves ...

Supermassive black hole duos are awfully quiet. Searches for spacetime ripples radiating away from these spiraling monsters are coming up empty, a new study reports. The silence is providing hints of ...