At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

Nuclear physics is a forbidding subject, even for trained physicists. To understand current news and discussions about nuclear science and technology, some background knowledge is required, and the ...

Teaching cause-and-effect relationships in physics only causes anxiety for some teachers. But this fall the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab is sponsoring a project to illuminate ...

With all the wireless design activity going on these days, it makes me wonder just how many engineers are actually educated in wireless principles anymore. Not many, I suspect. From what I have seen ...