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 ...

The Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) has secured early-stage data showing that scientific equipment aboard a satellite ...

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr had an ongoing rivalry about the true nature of quantum mechanics, and came up with a thought ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of 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 ...

A new joint analysis from the NOvA and T2K experiments offers the most precise look yet at neutrino behavior, bringing ...

The parabolic flight travels up and down several times on a trajectory resembling an arch, providing 22 seconds of zero ...

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 ...