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 ...

Thought experiments can have some advantages over real experiments: they require no special equipment, are low-cost, can be ...

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.” ...

Try these easy science experiments for kids at home. Kate the Chemist shares two cool and fun science experiments for kids: puffy slime and a penguin raincoat.

The lab where Protacio works uses agar to grow model organisms called fission yeast, whose chromosomes have striking similarities with ours. The bad agar derailed their experiments for two months.

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 ...

This article is an extended version of the article “The double-slit experiment” that appeared in the September 2002 issue of Physics World (p15). It has been further extended to include three letters ...

To build the DUNE neutrino experiment and its associated accelerator upgrade, experts invent customized ways to transport fragile, expensive and highly specialized components.

A new quantum physics experiment demonstrates that objective reality may not exist. Two scientists can make irreconcilable measurements of an event.

Scientists created mind-blowing slits in time in an experiment that could help advance how analog computers manage data.