Over the past decades, many research teams worldwide have been trying to detect dark matter, an elusive type of matter that ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The first result from the Muon g-2 experiment points to the existence of undiscovered particles or forces. These findings could have major implications for future particle physics experiments and ...