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HOUGHTON -- Sports can be tough to understand. There are rules that govern what's going on, but explaining them to someone unfamiliar with the game can be daunting. Physics poses a similar problem. We ...

Science presenter Jon Chase explains friction. He describes how friction opposes or prevents motion, and demonstrates the force in action with an experiment involving two interleaved books. Students ...

When massive open online courses (MOOCs) took off three years ago, many educators had high hopes that these courses could expand and diversify access to education. Early aspirations were soon replaced ...

Bio: Laurie McNeil is the Bernard Gray Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, having retired in July 2025 after ...

Physics is more than just math, and it is never too young to start learning about the world. The Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., hosted Renee Gurganus, a physics instructor at the ...

Researchers have demonstrated that incorporating known physics into machine learning algorithms can help the inscrutable black boxes attain new levels of transparency and insight into material ...