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The Art of Teaching Math and Science
...in popularity among physics teachers. Modeling instruction won the 2014 Excellence in Physics Education Award from the American Physical Society and has been shown to yield higher scores than traditional...
She Turns Fluids Into ‘Black Holes’ and ‘Inflating Universes’
...“It’s mind-blowing how physics really works,” she told me recently. “It just seems like nature threw us a bone when things are really hard.” The hard physics that’s out of...
A Call for Courage as Physicists Confront Collider Dilemma
...All the world is built out of 17 known elementary particles. Carlo Rubbia led the team that discovered two of them. In 1984, Rubbia shared the Nobel Prize in Physics...
Hopes of Big Bang Discoveries Ride on a Future Spacecraft
...physics at the time, and his interests seemingly lay elsewhere. Particle physicists seek the more fundamental truth underpinning the physical rules we’re familiar with. They’ve long used high-energy particle colliders...
What Is a Particle?
...don’t conflict so much as capture different facets of the truth. They also described two major research thrusts in fundamental physics today that are pursuing a more satisfying, all-encompassing picture...
Starfish Whisperer Develops a Physical Language of Life
...to in physics, but I think that’s an exciting challenge. In the past, physics has shown that this approach of trying to understand a unit as more than the sum...
Nobel Prize Awarded for Quantum Topology
Three physicists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics today for rewriting our understanding of exotic quantum states on the surfaces of materials. Their work explains the behavior of superconductors...
Einstein’s Parable of Quantum Insanity
...reality, is the very model of Einstein Sanity. With that triumph in mind, let us return to the apparent Einstein Insanity of quantum physics. Might that difficulty likewise hint at...
A Prodigy Who Cracked Open the Cosmos
Frank Wilczek has been at the forefront of theoretical physics for the past 50 years. He talks about winning the Nobel Prize for work he did as a student, his...