HOUGHTON -- Sports can be tough to understand. There are rules that govern what's going on, but explaining them to someone unfamiliar with the game can be daunting. Physics poses a similar problem. We ...

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 ...

The physics department offers students many teaching laboratories, where classroom theories are put into practice through real-world experiments and simulations. From electricity and magnetism to ...

Science presenter Jon Chase explains friction. He describes how friction opposes or prevents motion, and demonstrates the force in action with an experiment involving two interleaved books. Students ...

When massive open online courses (MOOCs) took off three years ago, many educators had high hopes that these courses could expand and diversify access to education. Early aspirations were soon replaced ...

Physics is more than just math, and it is never too young to start learning about the world. The Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., hosted Renee Gurganus, a physics instructor at the ...

It turns out that Angry Birds is more than just an incredibly popular, highly addicting video game. It seems that, used in the right way, it has legitimate educational value. In addition to Burk and ...