Undergraduate labs are more effective and more positive for students if they encourage investigation and decision-making, not verification of textbook concepts. Physics is founded on both theory and ...

ALTHOUGH it is usual for every teaching laboratory to have its own scheme of practical work, description of a course adopted elsewhere will often suggest useful changes either in general procedure or ...

A virtual laboratory under development at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro aims to let students experiment with physics concepts without physically being in a lab. Computer simulations ...

The International Space Station is now home to an even more capable quantum laboratory, where NASA cools atoms to nearly absolute zero to study one of the strangest states of matter known.

A quantum “mini universe” made from ultracold atoms revealed that time can emerge from entropy changes inside a system, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Sandia National Laboratories’ Experimental Impact Mechanics Lab is getting national recognition. According to Sandia, the lab is able to test the strength and evaluate the ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is developing a new project which aims to use AI to expedite fusion energy research. Shantenu Jha, the head of PPPL’s Computational ...