With a clever design, researchers have solved eddy-current damping in macroscopic levitating systems, paving the way for a ...
The world's most sensitive table-top interferometric system—a miniature version of miles-long gravitational-wave detectors ...
For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of ...
On this day in science history Sept. 17, 1999: Jesse Gelsinger died after receiving a gene therapy treatment to treat a liver ...
The Nobel Prize winners didn't just make a scientific discovery. They opened a doorway to the future -- a future where the ...
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Experiments and focuses

Dive into a world of fascinating experiments and clever focuses in this captivating collection. Witness surprising chemical ...
Pour some milk in a dish (whole milk works best, but honestly, use whatever’s not expired), drop in some food coloring, then ...
Peter Bender, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell will give a talk on “Seeing the Invisible: High-Resolution γ-Ray Spectroscopy of Rare ...
The ALICE Collaboration is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for transforming lead into gold for a fraction of a second and exposing the strange physics that goes on inside the Large Hadron ...
Mirror magic: The "cores" of the exotic nuclei oxygen-22 and silicon-22 both resemble that of oxygen-16, with eight protons and eight neutrons. The neutron-rich oxygen isotope contains an additional ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin ...