Princeton Professor Andrew Houck’s calculus students had just finished grappling with a set of equations on the forces of tension and gravity when he pulled a large pendulum back to his shoulder and ...

In modern physics, we have learned to formulate the laws for the behavior of matter, and for the large-scale organization of matter, in terms of standard models incorporating a very few parameters. We ...

Ask professors about important physics lectures, and they'll probably point you toward Richard Feynman's famous 1964 talks. They led to one of the most popular physics books ever (over 1.5 million ...

Texas A&M professor Tatiana Erukhimova has become a viral sensation thanks to her energetic demonstrations of physics experiments as part of the university's outreach programs. She now boasts a larger ...

A series of 10 free lectures at the University of Chicago will explore the bewildering number and variety of energy transformations that make everyday conveniences possible. These are easy to take for ...

Neil Turok talks to Paul Wells about the ever-increasing complexity of theoretical physics In his welcome speech to this year’s Perimeter Scholars International — captured on video and archived online ...