Experts see peer recognition as important to student success in physics, and a new study gives college-level physics instructors insight into how students perceive the message from their classmates ...

Fewer women pursue careers in physics than biology, and scientists from around the world believe these differences come down to personal preferences, according to a new study of international ...

Physics is the study of the underlying laws and mechanisms explaining how the universe works. Most of what we do in daily life is based on a principle or law of physics—dealing with forces, motion, ...

Suggested Citation: "5. Physics Education." National Research Council. 2001. Physics in a New Era: An Overview. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10118. Modern society ...

A new study suggests that faint, ancient ripples in spacetime may hold the key to one of physics’ greatest mysteries.

In their research, Hasenfratz, Catterall, and Butt used renormalization group (RG) theory to study the more complex phase ...

Turbulence abounds in nature, from the spinning whorls of hurricanes to the brilliant swirls of Jupiter’s immense storms. Astronomers have even observed it where stars are born in the vast maelstrom ...

What if the flow of time isn’t as one-way as it seems? Researchers from the University of Surrey have uncovered evidence that in the strange world of quantum physics, time could theoretically run both ...

As a student interested in physics and double majoring in French and architecture, I'm always trying to figure out how these fields are related. My classmates ask me why I declared a second major in ...