Teleportation has quietly shifted from pure fantasy to a working laboratory tool, and the latest experiments are starting to ...

What is the nature of dark matter? A new experiment led by Columbia University physics professors aims to find out.

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine walking into a laboratory where an AI is carefully adjusting a microscope, running experiments, and analysing results ...

Diana Parno’s head swam when she first stepped inside the enormous, metallic vessel of the experiment KATRIN. Within the house-sized, oblong structure, everything was symmetrical, clean and blindingly ...

In 1971, graduate student Stuart Freedman and postdoctoral fellow John Clauser took over a room in the sub-basement of Birge Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, and built an experiment ...

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 ...

An underground vat of liquid xenon in Italy may have just detected a new particle, born in the heart of the sun. If that's indeed what happened, it could upend laws of physics that have held fast for ...

THIS book, prepared for use in the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, is suitable for candidates for engineering degrees who have already pursued laboratory courses in physics. “Each experiment has ...