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 ...

We think everything is an accident of physics, but a long list of experiments suggests just the opposite. Amazingly, if you add us to the equation, you can explain some of the biggest puzzles of ...

National Geographic’s Best of the World highlights the most exciting, meaningful, and forward-thinking destinations, ...

In a quiet corner of a physics building in Australia, a glass funnel filled with a tar-like substance has been dripping so slowly that only nine drops have ever fallen. As it approaches its centenary, ...