Designed as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), these programmes aim to strengthen conceptual understanding and ensure wider ...

NCERT has launched free Physics courses for Class 12 students under the SWAYAM initiative. Designed as Massive Open Online ...

Physicists and educationalists have many theories about why so few girls study physics. Valerie Jamieson goes back to school and asks female pupils what they really think. Vanessa Bennett, Callie ...

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 ...

CARLO ROVELLI remembers the first time he glimpsed the beauty of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. He was an undergraduate lounging on a beach in southern Italy, leafing through a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. Black Hole Blues is a history of the search for gravitational waves ...

Five years after the creation of a multi-institution graduate school for physics PhD students, Peter McDonald and James West outline the lessons learned Diligent learning: Mark Patton from Oxford ...