For decades, manufacturing plastic-bonded high explosives, or PBXs, has relied on legacy processes like slurry coating. In ...

Researchers at Diamond Light Source have used advanced imaging to look at microscopic crystals, called nanolites, to see what they can tell us about volcanic eruptions. Highly explosive eruptions ...

Liquid crystals occupy an intermediate state between fully ordered solids and isotropic liquids, combining fluidity with a degree of molecular organisation. The synthesis of liquid crystal materials ...

Volcanoes can behave in strikingly different ways, even when they appear nearly identical. Some release slow, steady lava flows. Others erupt violently, sending ash and molten rock high into the sky.