Step into the hidden science lab in your kitchen with five easy experiments that explain refraction, surface tension, oxidation, capillary action and motion.

A breakthrough experiment in the quantum world shows photons in 37 dimensions, revealing reality beyond classical physics.

A new kind of plasma accelerator has cleared a hurdle that has dogged the field for decades, lifting electron energy and beam ...

Liquids and solutions may look simple, but on the molecular scale they are constantly shifting and reorganizing. When sugar dissolves in water, each sugar molecule quickly becomes surrounded by fast ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Light has always been the stage on which quantum mechanics performs its strangest tricks, and the double-slit experiment is ...

Researchers uncover geometric principles governing how particles self-assemble, solving a long-standing challenge in ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

When scientists repeatedly drove a strongly interacting quantum system with laser “kicks,” they expected it to heat up and ...

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You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...