For the first time, a quantum radiation reaction in strong electromagnetic fields has been demonstrated experimentally by ...

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 ...

Researchers at the CERN particle-physics lab have successfully transported antiprotons in a lorry across the lab’s main site.

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 ...

Physicists often find thrifty, ingenious ways to reuse equipment and resources. What do you do with 800 square feet of scintillator from an old physics experiment? Cut it up and give it to high ...

Scientists observe a visible time crystal for the first time, revealing a phase of matter that repeats patterns through time.

The long-awaited first results from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory show fundamental particles called muons behaving in a way that is not predicted by scientists’ best ...

After a two-decade wait that included a long struggle for funding and a move halfway across a continent, a rebooted experiment on the muon — a particle similar to the electron but heavier and unstable ...

Deep underground in Sudbury’s SNOLAB, a major new experiment has just reached a critical milestone. The very centre of a series of large, nested copper vessels that make up the heart of the newest and ...

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 ...

Periodic Labs wants to build AI scientists that can run experiments, learn from reality and accelerate discovery in physics ...