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 ...

Leo Shmuylovich knows a lot about how tutoring can take a student from confused to confident. The Washington University graduate student has worked as a tutor for several test-preparation companies ...

For generations, teaching physics has been more about manipulating math problems than learning the basic principles that guide the discipline. That’s precisely why, according to a growing body of ...

What do dog treats and chasing squirrels have to do with quantum mechanics? Much more than you might imagine, as Orzel explains in this fun introduction to modern physics based on a “series of ...

Dr. Greg Feiden and Dr. Sarah Formica, in background, teach the pedagogy class to their Learning Assistants (LA) on Tuesday nights. The pedagogy class instructs the LAs how to teach physics. The LA ...

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 ...

If your old dog won’t learn any new tricks, try teaching it quantum physics instead. In How to Teach Physics to Your Dog (Scribner), Chad Orzel does just that. A physics professor at Union College, he ...

Encouraging students to repeatedly make decisions about data collected during introductory lab courses improves their critical thinking skills, report physicists. Introductory labs are often seen as ...

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Physicists have used machine learning to teach a computer how to predict the outcomes of quantum experiments. The results could prove to be essential for testing future quantum computers. Physics ...

Simple Machines Made Simple,’ which raised more than seven times its target on Kickstarter, wants to demystify mechanical ...