Research findings are available online in the Astrophysical Journal. The original story “ Student made cosmic dust in the lab revealing life’s early chemical origins ” is published in The Brighter ...

A virtual laboratory under development at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro aims to let students experiment with physics concepts without physically being in a lab. Computer simulations ...

Discovery Lab at the Gathering Place is always teaching kids and adults something new. One experiment focuses on sounds and vibrations. It explains how when you combine everyday objects, they can make ...

After the Red Planet reemerged from conjunction — a period when NASA doesn't communicate with spacecraft because Mars is ...

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 ...

A lab study found that gamma brain stimulation slightly increased altruistic choices. Here’s what researchers discovered—and ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. A field experiment is a research method that uses ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bending Time: The Successful Time Travel Experiments using Kozyrev Mirrors In December 1990, in a remote village above the Arctic Circle, two Russian scientists embarked on a daring experiment. Their ...