An illustration showing a standing light wave reflected from a curved mirror with a spherical particle at the centre. A stream of information, represented by 0s and 1s, emerges from the system. Credit ...

The film explores the properties of sound waves in air, demonstrating that sound travels at approximately 1,100 feet per second and reflects similarly to light. Through experiments using echoes ...

The canopied campus buzzed with over 60,000 science enthusiasts, students, and professionals on Saturday, who witnessed live experiments and hands-on demonstrat ...

Let’s see what they’ve got.Scientists have observed “bending” atoms using a crystal grating—an experiment once believed impossible at the high energies required. The authors of a new ...

Physics experiments have changed the world irrevocably, altering our reality and enabling us to take gigantic leaps in technology. From ancient times to now, here's a look at some of the greatest ...

Chinese scientists have mounted what they say is the world’s first effective attack on a widely used encryption method using a quantum computer.

Experiments Show Perception of Geometric Patterns Could Be Caused by Standing Waves To conduct their experiments, the team used genetically modified mice. Specifically, the mice were programmed with a ...

A new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience shows how flickering light can cause hallucinations in our brain: it produces "standing waves" of brain activity. The work is published ...

This is exactly what occurred at higher strobe light frequencies in our experiment. The traveling waves transformed into standing waves, with some regions of the visual cortex becoming more active and ...