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 ...

Science teachers are still concerned about the attractiveness of physics courses. In 1971, in Victoria, Australia, high school physics enrolments showed an absolute decline for the first time in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carlo Rovelli has written a wonderful primer on how physics can help us understand the universe and our place in it Yes, “brief” is right: 10 pages per lesson, and the typeface is large. There are ...

A brief attempt to engage readers in the biggest questions of physics dwells on beauty and wonder Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli, Riverhead Books, 96 pages, $18 In the early 1960s, ...