For many undergraduate students, exploring the complexities of physics for the first time, from wading through advanced ...

Machine learning is becoming an essential part of a physicist’s toolkit. How should new students learn to use it? When Radha Mastandrea started her undergraduate physics program at MIT in 2015, she ...

Students from across the Intermountain West gathered to explore the world of science — and it was thrilling in more ways than ...

Diving straight into the foundational courses at Tufts can seem very daunting as a first-year engineering student. Between ...

In recent courses, I have noticed two troubling practices of physics students. The first is the student response to homework problems. I hear the following kind of statements all too often: "Oh, you ...

Using the second-nearest neighboring atoms to predict metallic glass stability can help researchers more accurately model the disordered solid with strong, elastic properties, according to a recent ...

A new study showed that, when confronted with physics problems, new parts of a student's brain are utilized after receiving instruction in the topic. Parts of the brain not traditionally associated ...

There has never been a more exciting time to study the exciting discipline of physics, spanning the workings of the sub-atomic world to the ever-expanding universe. The BS Physics Program in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. Sticking in the classical world, electricity and magnetism is an ...