Setting aside the insane upheaval going on i n US science, this year’s Physics World Live series will give you a sense of ...

Well, my Physics teacher gave out a big list of Physics-related books. They're not hardcore textbooks, they're all easy reading popular science books. Here's the list:<br><br><br>The Elegant Universe ...

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 ...

Most of us are pretty good at acting on the fly: swerving to avoid an obstacle in the road, ducking to keep from being hit, or reflexively catching a fly ball. We can do this because the brain is ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Does anyone who follows physics doubt it is ...

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 ...

In Spiderman 2, the superhero uses his webbing to bring a runaway train to a standstill moments before it plummets over the end of the track. But could a material with the strength and toughness of ...

Contemporary physics has learned to describe the universe with unprecedented precision. Yet when it tries to say what time is, it stumbles again and ...

A male physicist claimed during a lecture that men are discriminated against in physics. He also said that there are fewer women than men in physics largely because of innate differences in ...