Tabletop Experiments

The Dallas Schoolboy Who Put a Star in His Playroom

Twelve-year-old Aiden McMillan spent four years building a functional nuclear fusion reactor in his Dallas home, joining an elite group of 'fusioneers'. May 05, 2026

Physics

The Material That Forgets It’s a Solid When You Shake It

Engineers at CU Boulder have developed a 'liquid metal' material made of interlocking staples that switches from rock-solid to fluid with a simple vibration. Apr 22, 2026

Science

This Floating Time Crystal Makes Forces One‑Way — A Tabletop System That 'Breaks' Newton’s Third Law

A compact acoustic levitator at New York University produces a visible time crystal whose bead-to-bead interactions are nonreciprocal, appearing to sidestep Newton’s third law. Th… Mar 23, 2026

Technology

LEDs Send Stable Data in Sunlight

Researchers at Tokyo Polytechnic University have demonstrated a low-cost visible‑light communication link that transmits data reliably outdoors under direct sunlight, using an FPG… Jan 04, 2026

Physics

How Feynman Rewrote Motion

Richard Feynman's path-integral idea shows that classical motion is an emergent pattern of quantum possibilities; a 2023 experiment made that emergence visible by measuring single… Jan 01, 2026

Physics

Tabletop Test for Quantum Gravity

A small-scale experiment could decide whether gravity behaves like the rest of physics: quantum. New proposals and lab advances aim to entangle tiny masses via gravity and, in doi… Nov 30, 2025

Articles about Tabletop Experiments

The Dallas Schoolboy Who Put a Star in His Playroom

The Material That Forgets It’s a Solid When You Shake It

This Floating Time Crystal Makes Forces One‑Way — A Tabletop System That 'Breaks' Newton’s Third Law

LEDs Send Stable Data in Sunlight

How Feynman Rewrote Motion

Tabletop Test for Quantum Gravity