I don’t know about you, but I look back rather nostalgically on the practical exams that I took as an 18 year old as part of my A-levels in physics and chemistry. At the time, I wasn’t looking forward ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. Sabine Hossenfelder has a new blog post in her ongoing series about how ...

Diana Parno’s head swam when she first stepped inside the enormous, metallic vessel of the experiment KATRIN. Within the house-sized, oblong structure, everything was symmetrical, clean and blindingly ...

No one can question the impact of science on human civilization, and the importance of experimentation in science is equally undeniable. Some experiments confirm what we already know, others suggest a ...

(1) A Laboratory Manual of Experiments in Physics. By Prof. Leonard Rose Ingersoll. Pp. ix + 220. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill ...

THIS extremely useful and carefully prepared little book is intended to form the basis of the practical teaching of physics for schoolboys. It describes the way of performing fifty-eight experiments ...

Physical-collapse theories have long offered a natural solution to the central mystery of the quantum world. But a series of increasingly precise experiments are making them untenable. How does ...