Physics experiments have changed the world irrevocably, altering our reality and enabling us to take gigantic leaps in technology. From ancient times to now, here's a look at some of the greatest ...

Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.” ...

The experiment showed that Bohr was definitely correct when he argued for complementarity, and that Einstein had got it wrong ...

Time travel has long been a subject of fascination in science fiction, but recent scientific endeavors suggest that it might ...

El Capitan, the fastest supercomputer in the world, can now simulate extreme events like shock waves or fluid mixing at high ...

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 ...

Preliminary results from two experiments suggest something could be wrong with the basic way physicists think the universe works, a prospect that has the field of particle physics both baffled and ...

Sure, the Large Hadron Collider has another two decades of cutting-edge science left in it, but physicists are already designing the high energy experiments of the future.

The 10 experiments were democratically selected by the readers of this magazine in a poll that Crease carried out last year (Physics World May 2002 p17 and September 2002 pp19-20). This was a risky ...

Physics experiments don’t just reuse their own equipment—they also often give second lives to non-scientific facilities and resources. Old mines, with their hollowed-out underground sites shielded ...