A virtual laboratory under development at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro aims to let students experiment with physics concepts without physically being in a lab. Computer simulations ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — If you're looking for an electrifying lesson in science, Jefferson Lab is hosting a free educational series throughout the school year! Physics Fest is a two-hour presentation that ...

Electrons can be "kicked across" solar materials at almost the fastest speed nature allows, scientists have discovered, ...

Physics is beautiful in its ideas and in the people who pursue them across borders. What better, then, than for 16 laboratories across Asia, Europe and North America to throw open their doors for a ...

The mission of the Zebra Pulsed Power Lab (ZPPL) is to perform high-quality basic research in the area of high-energy-density (HED) physics, the study of matter under extreme conditions of temperature ...

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is the U.S. national laboratory with the mission to develop the scientific foundation for the creation of fusion energy, the power source of the sun and the ...

Several organizations are vying for the contract to manage Fermilab, after it received failing grades from the US Department of Energy. The future of US particle physics is in limbo as its central ...

At the University of Washington Harris Hydraulics Lab, an odd scene plays out. Over and over again, researchers from the UW and the Pacific Northwest ...

A central focus of our research program are several precision experiments that use parity-violating electron scattering to probe the structure of nucleons (the proton and the neutron).