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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Space Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 shown after successfully deorbiting and landing at Vandenberg Space Force Base, March 7, 2025. (United States Space Force) The Space Force’s X-37B ...

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

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

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 ...

Why is pancake syrup an example of a resistive force? Some forces are called contact forces because they require objects to touch. One is tension force, found in stretched wires. Another is the force ...