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, ...

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, ...

Physicists take on the big questions to discover how the universe works—from the smallest particles to the largest galaxies. Physicists experiment, observe, and analyze phenomena using mathematical ...

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 ...