Basketball shoes on a gym floor, bicycle brakes in need of a tune-up, or the squeal of tires are everyday examples of squeaking sounds. Such sounds have long been attributed to stick-slip friction, 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 ...

Diana Parno’s head swam when she first stepped inside the enormous, metallic vessel of the experiment KATRIN. Within the house-sized, oblong structure, everything was symmetrical, clean and blindingly ...

Science is a subject built on doing. Students learn chemistry through titrations, biology through dissections, physics ...

Purdue University students take part in activities at the newly-created physics labs in Indianapolis. Purdue University photo/Alisha Willett INDIANAPOLIS —Purdue University is expanding hands-on ...

Adia Pinski, a Cal Poly biological sciences pre-medical student from Seattle, conducts an experiment on hand tremors using the Physics with Phones curriculum. Ever wonder how jittery consuming a can ...

End of the line: Borexino (pictured) and the Large Volume Detector will shut down within the next two years. (Courtesy: Borexino Collaboration/LNGS-INFN) Physicists ...

IT IS a well-kept secret, but we know the answer to life, the universe and everything. It’s not 42 – it’s 1/137. This immutable number determines how stars burn, how chemistry happens and even whether ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Education is an important part of Building A Better Bay Area. The California State University system has found a high tech solution to replace hands-on lab experiments for ...

Scientists at CERN, the famous Geneva-based physics lab, have just called into question one of the most hallowed equations in physics: E = MC2. Scientists, the AP explains, have clocked subatomic ...

New research shows that traditional physics labs, which strive to reinforce the concepts students learn in lecture courses, can actually have a negative impact on students. At the same time, ...

Brian Abbey receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Australian Maths and Science Partnerships Program (AMSPP). David Hoxley receives funding from the Australian Research Council ...