In the guest blog, physicist Andrea Navarro-Quezada shows the importance of sound waves for our everyday life and research. Almost all of us know the concept of a wave. It is a periodic motion or ...

Concrete structures like roads and bridges require nondestructive testing methods to identify interior defects without ...

Settling a half century of debate, researchers have discovered that tiny linear defects can propagate through a material faster than sound waves do. These linear defects, or dislocations, are what ...

Illustration of an intense laser pulse hitting a diamond crystal from top right, driving elastic and plastic waves (curved lines) through the material. The laser pulse creates linear defects, known as ...

(Nanowerk News) Settling a half century of debate, researchers have discovered that tiny linear defects can propagate through a material faster than sound waves do. Dislocations in materials can ...

Illustration of an intense laser pulse hitting a diamond crystal from top right, driving elastic and plastic waves (curved lines) through the material. The laser pulse creates linear defects, known as ...

After decades of debate, scientists have found that defects can spread in materials such as diamonds quicker than some soundwaves, according to a new study. The study, published in the peer-reviewed ...