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For many, it's the start of a new semester of physics labs. That means there are new students in that introductory course. Of course, no one is really 100 percent ready to start these labs---but ...
These days, most of us have a smartphone. They are so commonplace that we rarely stop to consider how amazing they truly are.
Adam Fortais explains how the “At-Home Lab Kit” allows undergraduate students at McMaster University to do physics experiments while sheltering in place. This post is part of a series on how the COVID ...
Yale’s Wright Lab has been re-imagined as a nimble nexus for creating the sophisticated instruments that will transform science in the decades to come. Students, faculty, and staff across the ...
A study has found that students are more engaged in laboratory courses that are designed to emphasize and teach experimentation skills (Courtesy:iStock/AlexPotemkin ...
For the first time, scientists have observed electrons in graphene behaving like a nearly perfect quantum fluid, challenging ...