The most beautiful experiment in physics, according to a poll of Physics World readers, is the interference of single electrons in a Young’s double slit. Robert P Crease reports Simply beautiful – the ...

Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.” ...

Time travel has long been a subject of fascination in science fiction, but recent scientific endeavors suggest that it might not be as far-fetched as once thought. Researchers in laboratories around ...

Scientists have proposed a new kind of subatomic particle to explain another particle’s mysterious disintegration. What just ...

IIT Delhi, in collaboration with DRDO, has successfully demonstrated free-space quantum secure communication using ...

Why some physicists are skeptical about the muon experiment that hints at “new physics” The Muon g-2 experiment could upend the Standard Model of physics — but some think it may be a fluke.

How physics moves from wild ideas to actual experiments Science often accommodates audacious proposals. Matt von Hippel – Nov 25, 2024 4:00 AM | 28 ...

Experiment with non-Newtonian fluids, like ketchup and Oobleck, to determine how they react to shear stress.

In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron ...

The results from one of the most hotly-anticipated experiments in particle physics are in, and they could be about to fulfill every researcher's wildest dreams: They maybe, perhaps, could break ...

Scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments in quantum mechanics that laid the groundwork for rapidly-developing new applications ...

A new experiment has broken the known rules of physics, hinting at a mysterious, unknown force that has shaped our universe ...