Back in 2000, a team of physicists led by Lijun Wang at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, USA, pulled off a mind-bending experiment. They fired a precisely shaped laser pulse through a special ...

I explore how the speed of light could be visualized here on Earth in a fun experiment.

Immediately after the Big Bang boomed, the Universe was a trillion-degree ' soup ' of unimaginably dense plasma. In a ...

Imagine sprinting barefoot across a searing hot parking lot in midsummer. The ground blazes. The light dazzles and blinds ...

In physics, the classical "Hall effect," discovered in the late 19th century, describes how a transverse voltage is generated ...

Our analysis showed that temporal perception has even greater variation than scientists may have realised. Our perceptual ...

Colorado State University's Little Shop of Physics Open House returns March 1 with hundreds of hands-on science experiments ...

The squeaking of sneakers on a gym floor is usually attributed to friction, specifically a stick-slip variety that involves cycles of sticking and sliding between two surfaces. But that model is best ...

NYU scientists are using light to precisely control how tiny particles organize themselves into crystals. Their research, published in Chem, provides a simple and reversible method for forming ...

Two Virginia Democratic senators, Jennifer Boysko of Herndon and Lashrecse Aird of Petersburg, helped advance SB 306 and SB 297 patroned by Republican Sen. Mark J. Peake on Jan. 22, bills that would ...

Getty Images photographers share with PEOPLE their favorite images from the 2026 Winter Olympics, and reveal the tricks they used to capture picture-perfect, once-in-a-lifetime moments.

Thunderstorms can generate weak electrical discharges on the plants underneath, but until now, they had never been observed in nature ...