A new study revisits a century-old question about how turbulence starts. The findings could potentially influence not only aircraft engineering but even the design of mechanical heart valves, and ...

What governs the speed at which raindrops fall, sediment settles in river estuaries, and matter is ejected during a supernova? These questions circle around one, deceitfully simple factor: the rate at ...

Abstract: In fusion reactors, a very hot deuterium–tritium plasma is confined in a toroidal volume by means of a strong magnetic field. In the blanket structure that surrounds the fusion plasma, ...