The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

Sometimes science can be painfully slow. Data comes in dribs and drabs, truth trickles, and veracity proves viscous. The ...

At the University of Queensland, there is a display containing the longest-running laboratory experiment in the world. It's ...

A team of scientists has replicated one of Thomas Edison's early experiments from his quest to make the lightbulb, but with ...

A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...

Through new experiments, researchers in Japan and Germany have recreated the chemical conditions found in the subsurface ...

A bullet-speed experiment reveals that the Earth's inner core may be softer and more dynamic than previously thought.

A competition calling for research projects involving so-called AI scientists shows just how fast this technology is moving.

Discovery Lab at the Gathering Place is always teaching kids and adults something new. One experiment focuses on sounds and vibrations. It explains how when you combine everyday objects, they can make ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has published an extensive paper confirming the validity of its 2022 fusion experiment where multiple lasers focused on a sphere of deuterium and tritium to ...

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 ...