Physics is often a tough, dull subject for high school students, but Mark Ailes makes it come alive with drama and humor. “I’m always looking for a more dramatic and impressive way to involve students ...

Next week, Prof. Shaul Hanany will lie on a bed of nails while someone takes a hammer and smashes a cement block on his stomach. But he's not worried. Really. He knows that physics is on his side.

High-level tricks with the human body! Let’s check them right now! The human body is capable of incredible feats of flexibility,balance, and control. We are testing extreme contortion poses and ...

College professors these days face an ever-higher bar to grab the attention of their students, forced to compete with the stimuli of smartphones and laptops in large lecture halls. But when your ...

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 ...

When the Physics World editorial team started blogging in earnest early in 2008, it was our first chance to interact much more directly and informally with the physics community – prior to that we had ...