Experts see peer recognition as important to student success in physics, and a new study gives college-level physics instructors insight into how students perceive the message from their classmates ...

We rely on these study techniques because they seem sensible and straightforward. But just because they’re familiar and easy doesn’t mean they’re effective. In fact, research has shown that many ...

If you try to do an experiment or a calculation and it doesn’t work out, should you tell other researchers about it? Or just move on to something more promising as quickly as you can? Philip Ball ...