The short and resonant essays in Carlo Rovelli’s “Seven Brief Lessons on Physics” began as columns in Il Sole 24 Ore, the Italian newspaper. Even better, they appeared in that paper’s culture section, ...

Physicists and educationalists have many theories about why so few girls study physics. Valerie Jamieson goes back to school and asks female pupils what they really think. Vanessa Bennett, Callie ...

At 33, I graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics. I’m not a great mathematician, but the physics concepts were easy to get because so many of them were analogous to life. Research suggests that ...

IT is rather difficult to “place” this book. At the end there is a glossary in which (amongst more difficult ones) words are defined such as these:—absorb (to take in), alter (to change), constant ...