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This weekend, a group of former Midland ISD students will have their science experiment launched into space, heading to the ...

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 ...

The experiment showed that Bohr was definitely correct when he argued for complementarity, and that Einstein had got it wrong ...

Generations of researchers have tried to create a quantum theory of gravity, and their work has produced sophisticated ...

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 ...

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This article is an extended version of the article “The double-slit experiment” that appeared in the September 2002 issue of Physics World (p15). It has been further extended to include three letters ...