At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

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Explore the fascinating concept of wireless electricity and its historical ties to Nikola Tesla's groundbreaking experiments.

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A dead satellite can become a high-speed hazard in an orbit that is already packed with working spacecraft. That risk is why ...

Wu designed and executed an experiment that questioned — and then disproved — the infallibility of parity. After freezing a ...

Experiments show Josephson junction-like behavior can arise with only one superconductor, challenging the standard two-superconductor model.

A science demonstration by Mayur Vaishnav at Sandipani English School in Gujarat's Halvad town captured students' excitement and has since gone viral.

UW-Madison is once again inviting the public to experience science in action with its popular Wonders of Physics shows, a ...

The constant, energy-driven motion inside living cells may generate electricity in a way no one fully recognized before.