The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest rules of all.

Imagine a world without the glow of your screen, the hum of your fridge, or the instant communication across continents.

While many of the experiments it will conduct in the coming months are classified, the Space Force has identified space-based laser communications and quantum sensing as two of its focus areas.

With a clever design, researchers have solved eddy-current damping in macroscopic levitating systems, paving the way for a ...

Simple physics may explain how the Easter Island statues could "walk" miles with only a handful of people, but the debate ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin ...

A tiny worm that leaps high into the air—up to 25 times its body length—to attach to flying insects uses static electricity ...

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 ...

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 ...