The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their fundamental discoveries in machine learning, which paved the way for how artificial intelligence is used ...

Three scientists from American universities won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on quantum mechanics. The winners are John Clarke, a UK-born physicist and professor emeritus at the ...

In this video, I walk you through a super fun and simple balloon rocket experiment that you can set up in any classroom or at home. Using yarn, a straw, tape, and a balloon, I demonstrate each step so ...