Can you trust your own eyes? This video might be one strong case for a resounding, “No!” Even after the trick behind the magic is revealed, it’s hard to make your brain parse the truth. Although this ...

An international collaboration headed by researchers in the Department of Physics has shown that additive manufacturing offers a realistic way to build large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for ...

Havok, a middleware software suite best known for its 3D physics engine, is now a Microsoft property. Microsoft purchased the "leading provider of 3D physics" from chipmaker Intel for an undisclosed ...

Bonnie Tsim is a PhD student in theoretical physics at the Graphene NOWNANO Centre for Doctoral Training at the University of Manchester, UK. This post is part of a series on how the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Based on radio telescope data and models of black hole physics, a team has used neural networks to reconstruct a 3D image that shows how explosive flare-ups in the disk of gas around our supermassive ...

Reconstructed 3D sSMLM with pseudocolours corresponding to the z-axis positions of individual molecules. (Credit: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University) A new platform to image ...

Unlike a camera, holograms capture an entire light field to recreate the 3D scene. Holograms are photographic recordings of 3D scenes. Unlike a camera, which captures one view through a small viewer ...