During the 2026 Winter Olympics, athletes will leap off ramps, slide across ice and spin through the air. These performances will look different to my students who have studied physics through sports.

Amy Pope does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

From the biathlon to the slopestyle to the giant slalom, raising a ski above your head after crossing the finish line is the triumphant Olympic skier's standard celebration. But why do the skis of the ...

The Physics Help Center, located in Sharp Lab 101B, is a place where students in introductory physics and astronomy courses can come for assistance with homework, studying, lab reports and other ...

Alexander Mescher writes about the need for a more stringent, rigorous Gen-Ed program at Stanford, arguing for a curriculum that teaches students to think critically as well as learn facts.

Over three years ago, we approached Ates Games with the idea of creating a game centred around controlling a rolling ball that moves through levels ...

A clear, beginner-friendly look at quarks, the fundamental particles that make up protons and neutrons, and why they are ...

How do you create an inquisitive mind? Simply accumulating knowledge isn't good enough, suggest Lei Bao and colleagues (Am. J. Phys. 77, 1118–1123; 2009). Specifically, the teaching and learning of ...

One would imagine that an AI capable of solving the hardest Olympiad problems would naturally produce novel scientific ...

(Pronto), the global leader in OEM-agnostic autonomous haulage systems (AHS), today announced a major expansion of its product portfolio with the introduction of Pronto AHS VLR and Pronto AHS VLR 360.

The 2026 edition of the traditional Boltzmann Lecture will be held on Monday, February 23rd, at 14:00, in Room 128–129. The lecture is organized by the Statistical Physics group at SISSA, close to ...