After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to ...

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For generations, teaching physics has been more about manipulating math problems than learning the basic principles that guide the discipline. That’s precisely why, according to a growing body of ...

Acceleration and thermal energy are physics concepts that can be applied to stock car racing. Jon Feingersh/The Image Bank via Getty Images America has a physics problem. Research shows that access to ...

The promise is enticing — a book that explains quantum physics in a way that’s so simple to understand, even a dog can learn it. While reading this book did introduce me to some of the general ...

If your old dog won’t learn any new tricks, try teaching it quantum physics instead. In How to Teach Physics to Your Dog (Scribner), Chad Orzel does just that. A physics professor at Union College, he ...

Why talk to your dog about physics? : an introduction to quantum physics -- Which way? both ways : particle-wave duality -- Where's my bone? : the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle -- Schrödinger's Dog ...