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 ...

In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.

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 ...

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, ...

There has never been a more exciting time to study the exciting discipline of physics, spanning the workings of the sub-atomic world to the ever-expanding universe. The BS Physics Program in the ...

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 ...

You may never have heard of muons before, but these particles are crucial to our understanding of the universe. In a milestone study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers announce ...

How do you study a phenomenon that cannot be replicated on Earth? You study one that has nothing to do with it, but looks incredibly similar mathematically. Matthew R Francis examines how these ...