Diana Parno’s head swam when she first stepped inside the enormous, metallic vessel of the experiment KATRIN. Within the house-sized, oblong structure, everything was symmetrical, clean and blindingly ...

A string of recent experiments has moved desktop-scale particle accelerators from theoretical curiosity to working prototypes, with multiple research teams demonstrating that laser-driven devices ...

The International Space Station has once again become the stage for groundbreaking science, as NASA continues expanding the ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have switched on NASA's newly upgraded Cold Atom Lab, a one-of-a-kind facility designed to improve how scientists explore the fundamental workings of ...

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could do physics experiments on your phone, without needing a lab full of special instruments? Actually you can, with a free app called PhyPhox. It records data using the ...

Physicists often find thrifty, ingenious ways to reuse equipment and resources. What do you do with 800 square feet of scintillator from an old physics experiment? Cut it up and give it to high ...

Ever wonder how jittery consuming a can of energy drink or cup of coffee will make you? Or how much distance you cover with your natural gait? The answers are as close as your cell phone. For the ...

End of the line: Borexino (pictured) and the Large Volume Detector will shut down within the next two years. (Courtesy: Borexino Collaboration/LNGS-INFN) Physicists ...

A student in an Advanced Placement biology class might dissect a fetal pig to study internal organs and the skeleton. But can a student get the same level of experience from a virtual dissection ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken university education, with most teaching moved off campus and students learning online at home. But a cornerstone of undergraduate science education has been a ...