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 ...

A simple roll of tape and graphite led to a major scientific breakthrough. Researchers isolated graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms. This discovery proved that two-dimensional crystals could be ...

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 ...

A breakthrough quantum physics experiment has revealed a startling result. Scientists measured “negative time” as photons ...