At CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), lead atom nuclei, accelerated in opposite directions, collide at speeds close to the ...

Very quick tutorial. using Subsurface Scattering to simulate translucent materials that scatter light as it passes through.

The quirks of light moving through gas are the cause of stellar twinkling, which can be a bane—and sometimes a boon—for ...

Konstantin Vodopyanov, a professor at the College of Sciences and CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics, recently ...

A new study achieves unprecedented accuracy in modelling extreme cosmic events like black hole and neutron star collisions by calculating the fifth post-Minkowskian (5PM) order, crucial for ...

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use ...

Don Pettit spent a busy 220 days at the International Space Station. He conducted experiments, talked with students and ...

In photos The details in this photograph include the airglow of the atmosphere dividing Earth from space — yellow-green at an altitude of 75 miles and a faint reddish hue 250 miles above the ...