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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Through new experiments, researchers in Japan and Germany have recreated the chemical conditions found in the subsurface ...

A new quantum physics experiment just lent evidence to a mind-boggling idea that was previously limited to the realm of theory, according to the MIT Technology Review — that under the right conditions ...

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 ...

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