A tiny silica bead, just 100 nanometers across, sits suspended in a vacuum and vibrates under the grip of laser light. Those ...

Every student has a stereo system and a tune he or she likes to hum. And that’s enough to get them hooked on Bernard W. Bopp’s “Music and Sound” course at the University of Toledo. “It’s something ...

The acoustic properties of an ultracold fermion gas have been measured either side of the superfluid transition temperature in an experiment that has been described as “near perfect” and “beautiful”.

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 ...

25 Science Experiments That Seemingly Defied the Laws of Physics (But Didn’t!) Physics is supposed to be predictable. Drop a ball, and gravity pulls it down. Heat water, and it boils. Light travels in ...