Radiative shocks are a class of shock waves in which the transport and deposition of radiation play a central role in modulating the shock’s structure and dynamics. These phenomena are not only ...

In the early 1960s, a deceptively simple question took shape inside a laboratory at Yale University: how far would an ordinary person go if instructed by an authority figure to harm someone else? The ...

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) achieved the first direct laboratory observation of ion acceleration through reflection off laser-generated magnetized ...

“We were only following orders” – it was the defence used by many Nazis in the wake of the Holocaust, and appeared to be backed up by a famous experiment. Sign up for the top news stories every day to ...

Fifty years ago Stanley Milgram published his book Obedience to Authority, which described what have arguably become the most famous experiments in psychology. As the book detailed, an experimenter ...

The latest developed special experimental equipment, a high-intensity, multifunctional integrated shock tube. (Image by LUO et al.) Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...