The world is in an extraordinary era of astronomy — thanks to a suite of existing and upcoming facilities designed to study the universe across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. The James Webb ...

Twice every year, the University of Chicago’s Enrico Fermi Institute sponsors the Arthur Holly Compton lecture series, which provide the public an inside look at the questions about the universe with ...

In 1998 two teams traced back the expansion of the universe over billions of years and discovered that it was accelerating, a startling discovery that suggests that more than 70% of the cosmos is ...

The lectures, entitled “A Unified View of the Universe,” begin at 7 p.m. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. The lecture will also be Web cast on ...

There is nothing more tedious than yet another boring lecture. Derek Raine describes how students at one university are learning their core physics without traditional lectures. End of the lecture?

This is the second article in a two-part series examining teaching techniques in college-level physics courses. The first part, which was printed in yesterday's paper, examined some of the bold leaps ...

While teaching large physics lectures at MIT, Walter H. G. Lewin radiates enthusiasm. "And now, I’m going to blow your mind," said Lewin before giving a lesson about electrical circuits that seem to ...

The Duane Physics building at the University of Colorado Boulder has long been a hub for groundbreaking science education, but until recently, its infrastructure posed significant challenges for ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...