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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at BU chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus. Sometimes, the class you only chose because it fits your schedule is the one ...

Francis Halzen honored for work on IceCube Neutrino Observatory, used to discover neutrinos from far off universe ...

UC Berkeley’s Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics entered a new chapter last Thursday. Professor Hitoshi Murayama ...

Hello!As the autumn semester lectures progress, "vectors" will begin to appear in earnest in physics descriptions.I believe you have already learned about the "dot product of vectors" in high school ...

Given their experience and perspective, GTAs offer helpful insight without being too detached from the undergraduate mindset.

Assistant Professor Zack Hutchens took a six-thousand mile road trip this summer to a series of national parks in the ...

Hello!Starting this week, the autumn semester (second semester) classes have finally begun.During the summer break, I posted articles that were a bit deep, focusing on quantum mechanics, but from now ...

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In 2026, Penn State celebrates the centennial anniversary of awarding its first doctoral degree — in physics — to Marsh White ...

Red balls and blue balls. A penny in Maryland and another in California. The same atom in two points on a graph at the same ...

Because sometimes “I understand” is less of a statement and more of a survival technique There is a very specific moment in every university student’s life. The professor is explaining something.