For nearly two centuries, physics textbooks have treated light as magnetically indifferent to the materials it passes through ...

In 1887, one of the most important experiments in the history of physics took place. American scientists Michelson and Morley ...

An experiment 180 years ago first demonstrated a connection between light and electromagnetism – but the link is deeper than ...

College professors these days face an ever-higher bar to grab the attention of their students, forced to compete with the stimuli of smartphones and laptops in large lecture halls. But when your ...

The idea of emergent gravity is still new and requires a lot of assumptions in its calculations to make it work. But if experimental evidence ever proves it real, we would need to totally rewrite the ...