As he assesses the small but growing effort to reverse the traditional order of high school science courses, Jay Labov, deputy director of the National Research Council's Center for Education, recalls ...

Acceleration and thermal energy are physics concepts that can be applied to stock car racing. Jon Feingersh/The Image Bank via Getty Images America has a physics problem. Research shows that access to ...

Professor of Physics Roger Tobin, chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is this year's winner of the Lillian and Joseph Leibner Award for Distinguished Teaching and Advising, recognizing ...

After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to ...

Researchers have demonstrated that incorporating known physics into machine learning algorithms can help the inscrutable black boxes attain new levels of transparency and insight into material ...

Jesse Goldman received his PhD in experimental high-energy physics in 2000 and, following post-doctoral research on neutrino oscillations, turned his focus to physics teaching. While teaching in the ...

THE number of people training as teachers is up 11 per cent on the previous year, as graduates and career changers join the ...