Try our fun new interactive end-of-year quiz, which is (mostly) based on stories and events covered in Physics World. Compiled by Colin White. How well have you been following events in physics? There ...

Physicists take on the big questions to discover how the universe works—from the smallest particles to the largest galaxies. Physicists experiment, observe, and analyze phenomena using mathematical ...

That lead sentence of an article in Science News a few months ago summarized an experimental result by the Arizona State University psychologist Michael McBeath. McBeath and collaborators had asked ...

Physics is the study of the underlying laws and mechanisms explaining how the universe works. Most of what we do in daily life is based on a principle or law of physics—dealing with forces, motion, ...

With a degree in physics from Hope, you’ll create a strong foundation of skills and research-based inquiry that opens your options to a wide variety of careers and graduate classes. No matter what ...

Didactic physics is a research field of physics. It focuses on analysing the learning and teaching of physics considering the characteristics of physics knowledge itself. Thus, didactic physics views ...

A new report shows the significant role of physics, which contributed an estimated $2.3 trillion (12.6 percent of U.S. GDP) in 2016 alone. Industrial physics encompasses the application of physics ...

Isaac Newton would never have discovered the laws of motion had he studied only cats. Suppose you hold a cat, stomach up, and drop it from a second-story window. If a cat is simply a mechanical system ...

A recent interview with the well-known physicist Sean Carroll on “the physics of consciousness” gives us a great example of a reductive physicalist view of consciousness and the world around us. In it ...