The Shenzhou-20 crew aboard China's orbiting space station -- astronauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie -- has been ...

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 ...

At the beginning of September, within the National Space Laboratory, the Shenzhou 20 astronaut crew, consisting of Chen Dong, ...

These days, most of us have a smartphone. They are so commonplace that we rarely stop to consider how amazing they truly are.

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 ...

In a landmark experiment, scientists have found fresh evidence that a subatomic particle is disobeying one of science’s most watertight theories, the Standard Model of particle physics. The gap ...

Organic molecules detected in the watery plumes that spew out from cracks in the surface of Enceladus could be formed through ...

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 this exciting video, we delve into a fascinating science experiment exploring the interaction between matches and magnets.

Australian physicists, perhaps searching for a way to shorten the work week, have created an AI that can run and even improve a complex physics experiment with little oversight. The research could ...