NASA captured a stunning, first-of-its-kind image showing the colliding shock waves from two jets flying at supersonic speeds. The images, which feature a pair of T-38s from the U.S. Air Force Test ...

NASA is planning to fly its F-15B jets through supersonic shock waves in order to help test its revolutionary X-59 jet. When aircraft break the sound barrier, they produce shock waves that reverberate ...

Shock wave studies allow researchers to achieve the warm dense matter that's found only in the extreme conditions around stars and created in the laboratory for inertial confinement fusion research, ...

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The tiny-but-mighty pistol shrimp can snap its claws with sufficient force to produce a shock wave to stun its prey. So how come the shrimp appears immune to its sonic weapon? Scientists have ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers from Duke University have demonstrated that, despite significant advancements in protection from ballistics and blunt impacts, modern military helmets are no ...

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 ...

Shock waves fired repeatedly into water samples can remove dissolved salts, according to A Sivakumar and Martin Britto Dhas of the Sacred Heart College in Tirupattur, India. The researchers say that ...

Shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) is the only noninvasive method for stone removal. Once considered as a primary option for the treatment of virtually all stones, SWL is now recognized to have important ...

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