A program supported by Rochester Institute of Technology’s K-12 University Center is providing an Ohio high school student with the chance to work alongside professional researchers, and undergrad and ...

Science is a subject built on doing. Students learn chemistry through titrations, biology through dissections, physics through motion experiments, and earth science through field observations. That ...

Paul DeVoe’s physics classes are about more than monitoring quasars with a radio telescope, determining trajectories and solving equations. In the middle of a pandemic it’s also important to the ...

Most students who earn a PhD in physics build careers outside of research. Meet four physicists who went from particle physics research to teaching high school physics and math. As a kid growing up in ...

Student's from one of Wesley Morgan's physics classes at Springville High School work on a project in January 2025. One time at Springville High School, pigs actually flew. Hung from the ceiling ...

Basketball shoes on a gym floor, bicycle brakes in need of a tune-up, or the squeal of tires are everyday examples of squeaking sounds. Such sounds have long been attributed to stick-slip friction, or ...

High school students’ science achievement nationwide is not impressive and has not changed substantially in three decades. The national and state policy environment of science education is complex and ...

When the very brightest teenaged science minds from across the world compete in an annual grueling, high-level physics competition over five days in Budapest, Hungary next month, three students from ...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (WLS) -- A Buffalo Grove High School graduate is giving back to his alma mater in a big way! In June, class of 1988 alumnus Stephen Yacktman and his wife Ellyn donated $1 ...