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

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

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

A t the University of Queensland, there is a display containing the longest-running laboratory experiment in the world. It's ...

Buried deep below the American Midwest, a new kind of observatory is taking shape that aims to watch some of the most elusive particles in the universe as they stream straight through Earth. The Deep ...

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 ...

Albert Einstein was right about a shocking among of things, but not necessarily everything.

Learning from an anomaly during the first BOLT-1A flight, the successful BOLT-1B follow-on flight experiment collected ...

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

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 ...

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