Let us apply principle the first: There are not many books that can make you feel small — infinitesimal, even — and not trouble your internal emotional architecture in the slightest. Principle the ...
On a breezy spring afternoon at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, designer Jake Barton is watching a pair of middle schoolers chuck an iPod across a playground while another kid films the scene ...
The short and resonant essays in Carlo Rovelli’s “Seven Brief Lessons on Physics” began as columns in Il Sole 24 Ore, the Italian newspaper. Even better, they appeared in that paper’s culture section, ...
It was a day of ingenious contraptions, craned necks, hard thuds and thick splats as several dozen students from Pocatello High School recently participated in the annual Egg Drop. Students in Kandi ...
Physicists and educationalists have many theories about why so few girls study physics. Valerie Jamieson goes back to school and asks female pupils what they really think. Vanessa Bennett, Callie ...
Fifth-graders from around the area took turns learning about various aspects of college and occupations at the “Fifth Grade ...
As California schools move to implement new science standards, they are under pressure to offer more physics instruction, creating a demand for teachers in a subject area where there is already a ...
With neon-colored ear plugs clamped tight, Conroe High School students gripped the aluminum bleachers as 124 decibels of roaring sound and wind heralded a recent physics lesson — an Apache helicopter.