This video demonstrates a fun and simple science experiment showing how static electricity can make a thin stream of water ...

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 ...

In 1927, physicist Thomas Parnell poured hot pitch into a funnel at the University of Queensland. In this context, “pitch” is ...

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Collaboration that made precise measurement of the g-2 value honored with $3 million from the Breakthrough Prize in ...

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