Scientists at Texas A&M University have unveiled the Detonation Research Test Facility, the largest academic ...

A good number of important scientific inquiries center on the physics of explosions. The new facility will help scientists ...

The simple experiment setup. Image via Wiki Commons. In 1927, physicist Thomas Parnell poured hot pitch into a funnel at the ...

The one-day event will feature explosive science demos, including liquid nitrogen blasts, balloon explosions and fast-paced ...

Researchers have captured the first real-world evidence of tiny electrical flashes glowing from treetops during thunderstorms ...

Forty years ago, this very day, the Chornobyl disaster happened – the result of a reactor experiment ordered by Moscow, in ...

In an executive order issued last weekend, President Donald J. Trump directed the US Food and Drug Administration and the ...

As SNS celebrates two decades of discovery, its story is far from complete. Building on the foundation of reliability, power ...

A mysterious cosmic explosion has astronomers buzzing, as a strange event may hint at an entirely new kind of stellar ...

Visualization that accompanied NASA report showing magnetic reconnection on Sun. (NASA’s Conceptual Image Lab via SWNS) By Dean Murray Space scientists have revealed details of a "surprise" explosion ...

A Fayetteville solar site already powering UofA campus was highlighted during a ribbon-cutting event, part of a larger push ...

In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain ...