Experimental Physics - testing big ideas

Scientists have discovered a subatomic particle that can switch between matter and antimatter. This has big implications on how we look at the Univ... (2021)

The Double Slit Experiment started as a way to determine if light is a wave or a particle - but it uncovered mysteries that have baffled science to... (2023)

Our discipline is a dialogue with nature, not a monologue, as some theorists would prefer to believe (2018)

An idea for an experiment that could unite the stubborn fields of quantum mechanics and general relativity has been given new life by two groups of... (2018)

Scientists seek a single description of reality. But modern physics allows for many different descriptions, many equivalent to one another, connect... (2018)

Supersymmetry predicts a partner particle for each particle in the Standard Model, to help explain why particles have mass The Standard Model ha... (2018)

The same codes needed to thwart errors in quantum computers may also give the fabric of space-time its intrinsic robustness. (2019)

We learn it at high school: release two objects of different mass in the absence of friction forces and they fall down at the same rate in Earth’s ... (2018)

A new measurement appears to have eliminated an anomaly that had captivated physicists for nearly a decade. (2019)

"There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature." (2018)