John Hopfield, one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, is a true polymath. His career started with probing the physics of solid states during the field’s heyday in the 1950s before ...

A machine-learning AI can solve physics problems by simplifying them to be more symmetric. “There are many, many cases in the history of science where people thought things were more complicated than ...

Physics mastery starts with linking theory to real-world contexts. Conceptual problem-solving approaches, like those used in general relativity courses, encourage students to connect mathematical ...