Workshops around the world train science teachers to incorporate particle physics into their classrooms. Picture this: A stationary object such as a vase suddenly explodes, sending fragments flying.

At 33, I graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics. I’m not a great mathematician, but the physics concepts were easy to get because so many of them were analogous to life. Research suggests that ...

A columnist recalls planting poplar trees 50 years ago and how removing them inspired a personal twist on Newton’s third law.

Science teachers are still concerned about the attractiveness of physics courses. In 1971, in Victoria, Australia, high school physics enrolments showed an absolute decline for the first time in ...

Why are middle school students losing interest in physics? Why is Australia falling behind in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)? We in the Einstein-First project think we have ...

Even scientists and educators who have an abiding love of physics acknowledge that much of society at large doesn’t share their affection. The study of force and motion has long been regarded as the ...

The first time I heard about quantum information science, I was at a teacher development workshop in Canada in 2008. I already knew that quantum science was the study of the smallest objects in nature ...