Physics lab courses are vital to science education, providing hands-on experience and technical skills that lectures can't offer. Yet, it's challenging for those in Physics Education Research (PER) to ...

Modern scientific equipment can be staggeringly expensive. Take, for example, an instrument like a NanoSIMS probe, a instrument that lets scientists pick materials apart a few atoms at a time. There's ...

Physicists often find thrifty, ingenious ways to reuse equipment and resources. What do you do with 800 square feet of scintillator from an old physics experiment? Cut it up and give it to high ...

A robust body of research examines and addresses gender discrepancies in many fields, but physics is not one of them, Cornell researchers have found. Men are overrepresented not only in number but in ...

The Physics Trades Teaching Lab is a machine shop available to CU students, research staff and faculty who have taken our shop safety training course. The shop is available for use during the academic ...