In a quiet corner of a physics building in Australia, a glass funnel filled with a tar-like substance has been dripping so ...

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A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...

A t the University of Queensland, there is a display containing the longest-running laboratory experiment in the world. It's ...

A competition calling for research projects involving so-called AI scientists shows just how fast this technology is moving.

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. A field experiment is a research method that uses ...

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 ...

Sometimes science can be painfully slow. Data comes in dribs and drabs, truth trickles, and veracity proves viscous. The world's longest-running lab experiment is an ongoing work in sheer scientific ...