(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jane Charlton, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) When I was a teenager in the early 1980s, ...

General Physics for Majors course designed by CU Boulder Professors Eric Cornell and Paul Beale shows students that the furthest reaches of science are built on fundamental concepts The Nobel laureate ...

A professor at the University of Tennessee reimagines the way we teach STEM with a science-fiction story-based class. In the beginning, a spaceship called the Yggdrasil is sailing through the cosmos ...

Relating Noether’s theorem to introductory concepts like Newton’s laws can give students an early appreciation of its impact.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A screenshot from the ‘University of Mars' video game shows a galaxy flight. Jane Charlton , CC BY When I was a teenager in the ...