Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. In December, 1930, a group of physicists convened a meeting in Tübingen ...

The College Board last week announced the release of redesigned Advanced Placement programs for U.S. history and physics. The changes focus on reducing the amount of content coverage required to allow ...

This decade marked not just one but a series of turning points in the history of physics. The 2010s were an incredible decade for new knowledge, but more importantly, this decade’s discoveries—and the ...

Introduction / Jed Z. Buchwald and Robert Fox -- pt. I. Physics and the new science. Was there a scientific revolution? / John L. Heilbron ; Galileo's mechanics of natural motion and projectiles / N.M ...

In the research field of the history and philosophy of physics, Professor Emeritus Allan Franklin studies the long-term impacts of physics discoveries on the scientific community and the greater ...

In November 1949 Chien-Shiung Wu and her graduate student, Irving Shaknov, descended to a laboratory below Columbia University’s Pupin Hall. They needed antimatter for a new experiment, so they made ...

I. Introduction: aims and organizations of the seminar. -- II. Papers and discussions at the seminar. The use and abuse of historical teaching in physics / by Martin J. Klein -- Discussion of Martin ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. As 2019 winds down, we’re seeing a lot of stories offering wrap-ups of ...

The triode vacuum tube might be nearly obsolete today, but it was a technology critical to making radio practical over 100 years ago. [Kathy] has put together a video that tells the story and explains ...