ops rely on glitter to crack crimes? The sky is raining viruses? Your airbag may not be as safe as you think? It’s amazing ...

With school students in England bracing themselves for new-style GCSE science exams that are based entirely on written tests, Physics World has teamed up with Neil Downie to put together "five amazing ...

Tesla coils, superconductors, and hilarious music videos are great reasons to be excited about physics. Here are some of our favorites. 10. Musical Tesla Coil Steve Ward can tune his Tesla coil so ...

There’s a lot of discussion about “time” in the world of quantum physics. At the micro level, where waves and particles can behave the same, time tends to be much more malleable than it is in our ...

Talk about a bizarre feature of the human body: If you happened to swallow a razor blade, your stomach acid would dissolve it. Acids are ranked on a scale from zero to 14—the lower the pH level, the ...

It all happens in a snap. New high-speed video exposes the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it physics behind snapping your fingers. The footage reveals the extreme speed at which the gesture occurs, and shows ...

(via SciShow) Researchers were inspired by a certain purple villain to study the physics of finger snapping, and they found that the mundane hand motion is actually quite an impressive feat.

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast looks at how new technologies can improve our health and how we perceive our surroundings. First up is Kostas Kostarelos of the UK’s University of ...

Watch what happens when we mix ferrofluid with the liquid from a glow stick! Ferrofluid is a liquid that displays unusual properties in the presence of a magnetic field. Watch what happens when we mix ...

The Standard Model. What a dull name for the most accurate scientific theory known to human beings. More than a quarter of the Nobel Prizes in physics of the last century are direct inputs to or ...