This density experiment is an excellent representation of how denser fluids fall to the bottom of a cup, while lighter fluids float to the top of a cup. In this experiment, a type of syrup, water, and ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. A field experiment is a research method that uses ...

China’s latest advance with its so‑called artificial sun has pushed fusion plasma into a regime many physicists long treated as off limits, smashing through a density ceiling that had constrained ...