A new study has shown that physics problems can light up parts of the brain traditionally not associated with learning science. The discovery could help improve how the subject is actually taught.

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 ...

Any Cornell student who has taken physics class may have wondered at some point: “what makes physics so difficult to understand?” While students may be asking this out of frustration, Prof. Paula ...

Acceleration and thermal energy are physics concepts that can be applied to stock car racing. Jon Feingersh/The Image Bank via Getty Images America has a physics problem. Research shows that access to ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive disruption to higher education. Its impact has also raised important questions about university education, including how we should best assess students in ...

In today's podcast, Ilona talks with Tim Stelzer, a theoretical particle physicist and a research Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois. Over the past few years, Tim has created ...

Bio: Laurie McNeil is the Bernard Gray Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, having retired in July 2025 after ...

In The Physics Teacher, researchers explore the goal of culturally relevant pedagogy, which is to center students' cultural resources as a bridge to learning. It relies on a framework of academic ...

Investing in the future More funding for education research is needed to carry out research into how students learn physics. (Courtesy: iStock/Steve Debenport) Over the past century the Institute of ...

Listen to Professor Josh Samani describe how artificial intelligence reshapes education, why real-world connections prove essential to meaningful scientific understanding, and how his Iranian American ...

Look, paying attention in high school wasn’t everyone’s strong suit. There’s no shame in that. In fact, it’s hard enough recalling the name of your physics teacher, let alone Einstein’s theory of ...