I love python. I'm not ashamed to admit my feelings. One of the things I attempt to convey in my introductory physics courses is the notion that numerical calculations are cool. Of course, by ...

I love including numerical calculations in my introductory and advanced physics courses. I find that including coding in the introductory physics course forces students to think in different ways to ...

Moving along with our top science apps (we first showed you the best iOS math apps), now it’s time to clear some of the mystery surrounding the great laws of physics. These have plagued students ...

This specially designed course targets the frontier of modern astrophysics. Subjects include the planets of our solar system; the birth, life, and death of stars; the search for extrasolar planets and ...

A team of computer scientists and nuclear physicists is developing a memory management framework to help speed up physics calculations on supercomputers. This diagram shows the optimizations made by ...

Astrophysicists find a new use for the video cards that give computer games that movie quality: crunching scientific data. Spurred less by “Eureka!” than by “There’s got to be an easier way,” a group ...