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The Action Lab explores whether two magnets can orbit each other in this simple physics experiment.

Physicists in China have simulated the effect of "false vacuum decay": a phenomenon believed to play out constantly in the ...

Researchers have discovered that simple liquids can have breaking points, beyond which they suddenly fracture like solids.

In their study, researchers focused on a tool called a Paul trap, a workhorse of modern physics. These traps use oscillating ...

By feeding students the mysteries and wonder of modern physics, Don Lincoln hopes to ‘blow their minds.’ ...

Decades of weird experimental results appeared to support the existence of the sterile neutrino, a hypothetical particle that ...

Physicist David Shih used a Rubik’s Cube to inspire artificial intelligence research aimed at simplifying complex equations.

Other scientists have investigated the idea of a hidden structure further. David Bohm, a 20th-century physicist, built a ...

Friction usually announces itself through contact. A chair scraping across a floor, a tire gripping asphalt, a hand sliding ...