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 ...

We tend not to dwell on the fact that we exist in three dimensions. Forwards-back, left-right, up-down; these are the axes on which we navigate the world. When we try to imagine something else, it ...

Disbelief is often the first reaction to how one of the greatest material breakthroughs of the twenty-first century came about. The simple tools used to isolate a substance that altered the course of ...