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

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

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

A t 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 ...

Follow this physics lab tutorial to learn how to plot electric field and electric potential. Step-by-step instructions make it easy to understand the concepts, visualize results, and apply theory to ...

Physicists often find thrifty, ingenious ways to reuse equipment and resources. What do you do with 800 square feet of scintillator from an old physics experiment? Cut it up and give it to high ...

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 ...

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 ...

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