Taken from the January 2022 issue of Physics World where it first appeared under the headline "Bringing physics into hospital clinics". Suman Shrestha, who is doing a PhD in medical physics in the US, ...

In Drexel University’s physics department, faculty and students work side-by-side to explore the span of universal phenomena – from biophysics to astrophysics and cosmology, all the way down to the ...

EVERY student returning to school this fall should have the opportunity to prepare for the rapidly growing job opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math — also known as STEM. But many ...

A year’s worth of physics in the span of eight weeks? Who in their right mind would ever do something like that to themselves? Answer: me and a handful of people, that’s who. Offered through the UC ...

Physics is the study of the underlying laws and mechanisms explaining how the universe works. Most of what we do in daily life is based on a principle or law of physics—dealing with forces, motion, ...

As recognized by the American Physical Society, physics education research is a growing and substantive new sub-discipline within physics. CU Boulder's program of study in PER will include: ...

When Elon Musk was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, he pursued a dual degree in business and physics. "It was an unusual combination," he told Physics World in 2007, "and I enjoyed ...

Imagine being able to watch movies for your undergraduate studies. I certainly wouldn’t have minded it. But this is what students at Boston University are doing as part of a cinema-physica course. The ...

For most of the 20th century, physicists largely ignored living systems. They understood living things as machines, albeit ones made of gooey parts. A subfield called biophysics uncovered specific ...