Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...

In this short science clip, I show how ordinary peanut butter can actually glow when you shine violet UV light on it. I ...

Scientists at Fermilab’s MicroBooNE experiment have ruled out the existence of the elusive sterile neutrino, a particle proposed for decades to explain puzzling neutrino behavior. Their high-precision ...

Deep inside the brain, every thought and memory begins with a burst of electrical activity. For years, scientists have tried ...

The Exciting Science Show comes to Torch Theatre on February 18, featuring live experiments, volcanoes and family fun this half-term.

Step into the hidden science lab in your kitchen with five easy experiments that explain refraction, surface tension, ...

Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

Liquids and solutions may look simple, but on the molecular scale they are constantly shifting and reorganizing. When sugar dissolves in water, each sugar molecule quickly becomes surrounded by fast ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, ...

Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have, for the first time, demonstrated a technique that synchronises ultrashort ...