A century after Nikola Tesla sketched a turbine with no blades, researchers are now using that same counterintuitive design ...

UW-Madison is once again inviting the public to experience science in action with its popular Wonders of Physics shows, a ...

If you rub two identical balloons together, they both pick up a static charge. This behavior is strange and unexpected, but it’s been documented in the scientific literature. When our host George ...

Physicists often find thrifty, ingenious ways to reuse equipment and resources. What do you do with 800 square feet of scintillator from an old physics experiment? Cut it up and give it to high ...