Schematic: The experiment took place in a dye-filled cavity between two mirrors. The bottom mirror was nanostructured to create two waveguides that directed the light. In the primary waveguide, ...

Out of order: quantum mechanics defies causal order. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Sam72) An experiment has confirmed that quantum mechanics allows events to occur with no definite causal order. The work ...

Like great art, great thought experiments have implications unintended by their creators. Take philosopher John Searle’s Chinese room experiment. Searle concocted it to convince us that computers ...

Scientists made headlines last week for supposedly generating a wormhole. The research, reported in Nature, involves the use of a quantum computer to simulate a wormhole in a simplified model of ...

Cutting-edge atomic clocks may soon reveal a strange possibility: time itself behaving like a quantum object, existing in ...

The Engineering Mechanics Laboratory is primarily dedicated to support the freshmen Mechanical Engineering courses. The laboratory supports experiments related to Newtonian mechanics from a ...

Gravity is a bit of an enigma. We know how it works, but not really what causes it. In 1915, Einstein’s famous Theory of Relativity demonstrated that gravitational attraction is due to the warping of ...

The double-slit experiment is the best demonstration of quantum weirdness, in which electrons simultaneously act like particles and waves and seemingly violate basic laws of physics. Now we’re trying ...

The Advanced Mechanics Lab is an academic teaching space for Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology Experimental Methods courses. The Lab includes four non-magnetic frame assemblies, with ...

From Bernoulli’s theorem to vortex flows, fluid mechanics labs bring textbook theory to life. Open lab manuals, creative experiments, and precise tools empower students to connect equations with ...

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 ...