Explore 25 science experiments that defied the laws of physics, revealing mind-bending phenomena that challenge intuition.

Abstract: In this talk, I’ll discuss two suborbital balloon experiments to which my group is currently contributing: ASTHROS: the Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution ...

On January 12, 1896, three students at Davidson College experimented with x-rays. On January 6, 1896, the Associated Press announced that German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen had discovered a new form of ...

College professors these days face an ever-higher bar to grab the attention of their students, forced to compete with the stimuli of smartphones and laptops in large lecture halls. But when your ...

In a first, scientists have shown that they can send light through “slits in time” in time. The new experiment is a twist on a 220-year-old demonstration, in which light shines through two slits in a ...

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory deal a blow to a theoretical particle known as the sterile neutrino. For more than two decades, this proposed fourth ...

Sticky challenge One of the 37 pitch-drop experiments sent by Trinity College Dublin’s School of Physics to secondary schools all over Ireland. (Courtesy: Karl Gaff, TCD School of Physics) Nothing is ...

Purdue University students take part in activities at the newly-created physics labs in Indianapolis. Purdue University photo/Alisha Willett INDIANAPOLIS —Purdue University is expanding hands-on ...

Physicists now have a brand-new measurement of a property of the muon called the anomalous magnetic moment that improves the precision of their previous result by a factor of 2. An international ...