The most beautiful experiment in physics, according to a poll of Physics World readers, is the interference of single electrons in a Young’s double slit. Robert P Crease reports Simply beautiful – the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In a mind-warping milestone experiment, scientists have been able to ...

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s helical structure. By Delthia Ricks Franklin W. Stahl, a molecular biologist ...

Watch simple materials turn into oddly satisfying transformations—Wood Mood pulls off experiments where the results get weirder (and more beautiful) each time. A cardiologist’s no. 1 rule for healthy ...

This list was ostensibly the creation of a New York philosophy professor who recently asked physicists to name the most beautiful scientific experiments ever conducted. Their nominations, which appear ...