Sometimes science can be painfully slow. Data comes in dribs and drabs, truth trickles, and veracity proves viscous. The ...

At the University of Queensland, there is a display containing the longest-running laboratory experiment in the world. It's ...

A virtual laboratory under development at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro aims to let students experiment with physics concepts without physically being in a lab. Computer simulations ...

A bullet-speed experiment reveals that the Earth's inner core may be softer and more dynamic than previously thought.

Running for nearly a century, this quiet experiment proves a “solid” can flow, drop by drop, while generations of scientists ...

Researchers have reported new experimental results addressing the origin of rare proton-rich isotopes heavier than iron, ...

What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According ...

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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 ...

While artificial intelligence (AI) models have proved useful in some areas of science, like predicting 3D protein structures, ...

Discovery Lab at the Gathering Place is all about learning through play and making it fun. At the Science Lab, kids get educational experiences through experiments. "One of the things that we love to ...

In a quiet corner of a physics building in Australia, a glass funnel filled with a tar-like substance has been dripping so ...