This is the second article in a two-part series examining teaching techniques in college-level physics courses. The first part, which was printed in yesterday's paper, examined some of the bold leaps ...

Twice every year, the University of Chicago’s Enrico Fermi Institute sponsors the Arthur Holly Compton lecture series, which provide the public an inside look at the questions about the universe with ...

Physics seminars serve as a dynamic platform where researchers and scholars come together to exchange knowledge, discuss cutting-edge discoveries, and delve into the intricacies of the physical world.

University of Bristol physics professor Sir Michael Berry visited the University of Wisconsin on Monday to for a seminar on geometric phase. The seminar was part of the Chemistry Department’s Willard ...

A Brown University physics professor discusses the use of magnetism to alter cellular processes, such as cell division and swimming behavior, in a Bates College lecture at 2:40 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, in ...

Ask professors about important physics lectures, and they'll probably point you toward Richard Feynman's famous 1964 talks. They led to one of the most popular physics books ever (over 1.5 million ...

The LHC project, comprising the accelerator and the experiments, aims to tackle some of the most fundamental questions about the origin, evolution and composition of our universe. Potential ...

In modern physics, we have learned to formulate the laws for the behavior of matter, and for the large-scale organization of matter, in terms of standard models incorporating a very few parameters. We ...

PHYSICS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN: Stanford Professor Robert Laughlin, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Physics, is scheduled to deliver a public lecture at UC Davis on May 22 on new ways to think about ...

Learning through doodling: Richard Feynman lecture doodle by Perrin Ireland taken from the March 2014 issue of Physics World magazine. (Courtesy: Perrin Ireland) The drawing’s creator is professional ...