Eugenia Etkina and Gorazd Planinšič describe how research into how people learn – plus the desire to help all students develop scientific “habits of mind” – is reshaping the way they teach physics An ...

Such projects are often fun for students and teachers. Teachers are often intrigued and amazed by students’ ideas and ...

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 ...

Leo Shmuylovich knows a lot about how tutoring can take a student from confused to confident. The Washington University graduate student has worked as a tutor for several test-preparation companies ...

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 ...

The promise is enticing -- a book that explains quantum physics in a way that's so simple to understand, even a dog can learn it. While reading this book did introduce me to some of the general ...

The promise is enticing — a book that explains quantum physics in a way that’s so simple to understand, even a dog can learn it. While reading this book did introduce me to some of the general ...

What do dog treats and chasing squirrels have to do with quantum mechanics? Much more than you might imagine, as Orzel explains in this fun introduction to modern physics based on a “series of ...

If your old dog won’t learn any new tricks, try teaching it quantum physics instead. In How to Teach Physics to Your Dog (Scribner), Chad Orzel does just that. A physics professor at Union College, he ...