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

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

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 ...

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

A new quantum physics experiment just lent evidence to a mind-boggling idea that was previously limited to the realm of theory, according to the MIT Technology Review — that under the right conditions ...

Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Sen. Ted Budd announced legislation this month to create the first national system of programmable cloud laboratories with the aim of accelerating scientific ...

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 student in an Advanced Placement biology class might dissect a fetal pig to study internal organs and the skeleton. But can a student get the same level of experience from a virtual dissection ...

Jason Lindsey, a nationally recognized STEM educator and science communicator, shared several engaging science experiments for families to do at home during the holiday season, emphasizing that anyone ...

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 ...

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 ...