Many school pupils fail at physics because they misunderstand the fundamental concepts. A new teaching method can change this – ETH researchers have now proven its effect. It particularly helps ...

Physicists and educationalists have many theories about why so few girls study physics. Valerie Jamieson goes back to school and asks female pupils what they really think. Vanessa Bennett, Callie ...

Let us apply principle the first: There are not many books that can make you feel small — infinitesimal, even — and not trouble your internal emotional architecture in the slightest. Principle the ...

Workshops around the world train science teachers to incorporate particle physics into their classrooms. Picture this: A stationary object such as a vase suddenly explodes, sending fragments flying.

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Five years after the creation of a multi-institution graduate school for physics PhD students, Peter McDonald and James West outline the lessons learned Diligent learning: Mark Patton from Oxford ...

At 33, I graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics. I’m not a great mathematician, but the physics concepts were easy to get because so many of them were analogous to life. Research suggests that ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As the land is to the sea, a foothold in an immensity, so the Earth is to the cosmos. No wonder some scientists are ...