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

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

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

Before smartphones, tablets, and digital labs, science class for Baby Boomers meant getting hands-on with experiments that ...

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 ...

Through CU Boulder’s Physics through Evidence, Empowerment through Reasoning (PEER) Physics project, Professor Valerie Otero and her team are working with teachers to provide resources to support ...

This year’s Citizen Science Month may be winding down at the end of April, but you can help researchers collect and analyze their data all year long. This week, citizen science platform Zooniverse has ...

Imagine asking the biggest, most fundamental question of all: what is reality? How would you go about answering it? If you took the scientific approach, you'd go down to the smallest indivisible ...

Lord and Miller’s Project Hail Mary is a big-hearted space adventure that’s ultimately about a friendship between Ryan Gosling’s accidental astronaut Ryland Grace and his alien buddy Rocky. There’s a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. When we divide up matter into the smallest possible chunks that it's ...