Explore the fascinating world of physics with three captivating science demonstrations. Watch a water balloon pop in slow motion, revealing how surface tension holds its shape. See magnetic forces at ...

ALICE has measured the elliptic flow of the hypertriton for the first time, finding that it follows the collective motion of ...

Andrea Ghez developed a way to peer through dust clouds and observe stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center ...

A team of mathematicians used whimsical "silly sprinklers" to solve a physics mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades ...

Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.

Researchers have recreated the physics of extracting energy from a spinning black hole using a stationary device that ...

Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicts that a rotating mass like the Earth pulls the fabric of space and ...

A black hole is not sitting inside a lab in Manhattan, but some of its strangest physics just helped shape a tabletop experiment there. For decades, physicists have wondered whether waves could steal ...

First formulated in 1935, the famous thought experiment attempts to explain the weirdness of quantum superposition, but a new study shows that this theoretical feline is really only the beginning of ...

Martin Sheen voices George Washington in a five-part series timed to America's 250th anniversary that leans on interviews with dozens of politicians and historians. By Angie Han Television Critic ...

This article is part of “The Young American Scientists,” which includes stories of 28 extraordinary scientists poised to change the world, as well as a deep look at the past, present and future of ...

In Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice unwittingly falls into a rabbit hole, which leads to a fantastical place called Wonderland. It’s one of the defining works of ...