In a quiet corner of a physics building in Australia, a glass funnel filled with a tar-like substance has been dripping so ...

A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...

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A t the University of Queensland, there is a display containing the longest-running laboratory experiment in the world. It's ...

A competition calling for research projects involving so-called AI scientists shows just how fast this technology is moving.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has published an extensive paper confirming the validity of its 2022 fusion experiment where multiple lasers focused on a sphere of deuterium and tritium to ...

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Nearly 400 years ago Galileo performed the first recorded laboratory experiment, timing balls as they rolled down an inclined plane to test his theory of acceleration. Since that time, laboratory ...

Sometimes science can be painfully slow. Data comes in dribs and drabs, truth trickles, and veracity proves viscous. The world's longest-running lab experiment is an ongoing work in sheer scientific ...