A hands-on physics experiment demonstrates how a basic self-braking pulley works, explaining the forces and friction that allow it to stop itself without extra mechanisms.

A research team at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is the first ever to observe a beta-delayed neutron emission ...

A routine lab experiment by a college student has turned into one of the strangest physics stories of the year, hinting that ...

A scientific experiment aimed at detecting dark matter in space launched from Antarctica on December 15, with significant ...

Rapid advances in the kind of problems that quantum computers can tackle suggest that they are closer than ever to becoming ...

Nature speaks to theoretical physicists to explore the real theories that inspired the hit series. Warning: contains spoilers ...

The General AntiParticle Spectrometer experiment is suspended from a football-field-sized balloon approximately 24 miles ...

After a decade of painstaking measurements, scientists have delivered a major plot twist in particle physics: a ...

The text is now best known for introducing “Pascal’s Law” or “Principle,” that any change of pressure in an enclosed incompressible fluid (like water) is transmitted equally to all points within the ...

Eighth-graders at Britton Middle School transformed their gymnasium into a showcase of scientific inquiry Dec. 11, presenting ...

For more than 40 years, physicist John Conway has led research in high-energy particle physics, a field driven by a simple ...

OpenAI’s new FrontierScience benchmark shows AI advancing in physics, chemistry, and biology—and exposes the challenge of ...