BEIJING -- China's Shenzhou XVI astronauts recently worked with researchers on the ground in a number of in-orbit experiments including fluid physics experiments and cold atom interferometer set-up, ...

BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- China's Shenzhou-16 astronauts recently worked with researchers on the ground in a number of in-orbit experiments including fluid physics experiments and cold atom ...

Surprising oil drop experiments suggest that the quantum world may not be as strange as advertised. For nearly a century, “reality” has been a murky concept. The laws of quantum physics seem to ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of classic turbulence occurring within swarms of rising gas bubbles. An international team of scientists from the (HZDR), Johns Hopkins University, and Duke Universi ...

There is in nature — at least on Earth, that part of nature we know so well — a tendency for complexity to grow through time. The kinds of things that exist on our planet do not remain constant in ...

Seismic kitchen roll: photograph showing paper towel being stretched between an anchor (bottom) and springs (top). (Courtesy: Tzortzopoulos et al. / Geophysical Research Letters) A seismic model based ...

The experimental condensed-matter group is focused on elucidating the complex relationship between materials science and biology. The entire experimental group are members of the Brandeis Materials ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The spread of tumors and other growing tissues has revealed a whole new type of physics. In new ...

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