A study has found that students are more engaged in laboratory courses that are designed to emphasize and teach experimentation skills (Courtesy:iStock/AlexPotemkin ...

Adam Fortais explains how the “At-Home Lab Kit” allows undergraduate students at McMaster University to do physics experiments while sheltering in place. This post is part of a series on how the COVID ...

This September, IMAP — a one-ton NASA spacecraft carrying 10 unique instruments — will launch into space to collect and interpret particles from the Sun and from exploded stars billions of miles ...

Sacramento State Physics students will conduct research with scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in a new collaboration funded by the federal Department of Energy. Four Sac State ...

I still remember that Brooklyn lab as if it were yesterday. Not because of the graph, but because of what it revealed: When ...

Students in PHYS 102 labs are required to complete three labs by the end of the semester through video analysis. Credit: Sukhmani Kaur Students in lab courses are raising concerns over missing out on ...

Eunice Millán prepares to measure the force of friction in a physics lab at Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden, New Jersey, which requires all students to take physics to graduate. (Tara García ...

With the new emphasis on hands-on, active learning throughout higher education, lab courses would seem to have an advantage -- what could be more active than doing experiments? But surprising new ...

One study showed that students who took a traditional lab to accompany their science lessons fared no better on the final exam than those who did not. One might assume that a science lab is a place ...

A doctoral student travels to Washington to explain the enigma of neutrinos, particles that are as strange as they are ...

Curiosity, collaboration and a passion for discovering how the universe works have propelled this rising astrophysicist onto ...

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