One morning in 2009, Jacqueline Tabler woke up with the solution to a laboratory problem that had been plaguing her for months. She got out of bed, grabbed her notebook, and started sketching out an ...

Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the Universe and exploring the quantum world. By trapping atoms and exploiting their quantum ...

At the University of Queensland, there is a display containing the longest-running laboratory experiment in the world. It's been going for so long that two of its custodians have died before seeing ...

In a quiet corner of a physics building in Australia, a glass funnel filled with a tar-like substance has been dripping so slowly that only nine drops have ever fallen. As it approaches its centenary, ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...