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, ...

The Action Lab explores whether two magnets can orbit each other in this simple physics experiment.

We tend not to dwell on the fact that we exist in three dimensions. Forwards-back, left-right, up-down; these are the axes on which we navigate the world. When we try to imagine something else, it ...