Twice every year, the University of Chicago’s Enrico Fermi Institute sponsors the Arthur Holly Compton lecture series, which provide the public an inside look at the questions about the universe with ...

Physics seminars serve as a dynamic platform where researchers and scholars come together to exchange knowledge, discuss cutting-edge discoveries, and delve into the intricacies of the physical world.

This is the second article in a two-part series examining teaching techniques in college-level physics courses. The first part, which was printed in yesterday's paper, examined some of the bold leaps ...

Something unseen and massive determines the fate of our universe. Dark matter pervades the cosmos and guides the formation of structure. Dark matter is revealed by the way it warps images of ...

The IceCube project at the geographic South Pole melted eighty-six holes over 1.5 miles deep in the Antarctic icecap to construct an enormous astronomical observatory. The experiment recently ...

Ask professors about important physics lectures, and they'll probably point you toward Richard Feynman's famous 1964 talks. They led to one of the most popular physics books ever (over 1.5 million ...

A series of free lectures at the University of Chicago will describe how the machines that physicists have built to understand matter on the smallest scales over the last century have found additional ...

At the center of the Milky Way galaxy, some 27,000 light years from Earth, there's a great dark beast. With a mass estimated to be equal to 4 million suns, this supermassive black hole is terrifying ...

There is nothing more tedious than yet another boring lecture. Derek Raine describes how students at one university are learning their core physics without traditional lectures. End of the lecture?