Machine learning is becoming an essential part of a physicist’s toolkit. How should new students learn to use it? When Radha Mastandrea started her undergraduate physics program at MIT in 2015, she ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Researchers of a new study published in the journal Frontiers in ICT said that their findings show that the activity of the brain is modifiable by different forms of instruction. Study researcher Eric ...

A new review in Nature chronicles the many ways machine learning is popping up in particle physics research. Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider produce about a million gigabytes of data every ...

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Let’s try a test. If I were to tell you that this article is about academic-staff development, would you: (a) laugh and move on; (b) initiate a group discussion on the decline of physics; (c) read on, ...

I've seen several quotes that say something like this: "Everything I learned in college can now be found online for free." Is that true or false? Well, it depends, of course, on what you did in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. Sticking in the classical world, electricity and magnetism is an ...