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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A machine learning model used neural decoding to show how we think about abstract concepts like electrical current and diffraction. The results could change how we teach physics. Share on Facebook ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. Sticking in the classical world, electricity and magnetism is an ...

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 ...