Four Winters Mill High School students sat at a lunch table at Liberty High School, each working to build a different piece of their project. One shredded Styrofoam into pieces, another worked to fold ...

As a physics major, it feels like I spend the majority of my waking life solving problems. I’ve calculated the amount of water you get from mixing different ratios of steam and ice, the path of ...

Transfer of math, physics, and communication skills into the entry-level photonics workforce, NSF Award 1432578, Sept 2014 – Aug 2019 Exploring factors that shape education & workplace training on ...

Nature has a way of finding optimal solutions to complex problems. For example, despite the billions of ways for a single protein to fold, proteins always fold in a way that minimizes potential energy ...

Solving life's great mysteries often requires detective work, using observed outcomes to determine their cause. For instance, nuclear physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson ...

You have memorized the formulas. You have practiced the methods for solving example problems. Yet, when the problem setup changes slightly, you find yourself at a loss as to where to begin. Have you ...

The merging of real and virtual worlds into a so-called mixed-reality environment can help students successfully complete problem-solving tasks. Mixed reality—a hybrid of augmented and virtual reality ...

The first half of The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume II, begins with the fundamental laws of electromagnetism and ...

This problem has stumped scientists for thousands of years — this video explores and attempts to solve Olber’s Paradox, ...

A few common problems game developers run into is how to rotate a sprite to face a specific direction, finding the angle between two headings, or rotating from one direction to another given a ...