This September, IMAP — a one-ton NASA spacecraft carrying 10 unique instruments — will launch into space to collect and interpret particles from the Sun and from exploded stars billions of miles ...

ExxonMobil has funded the purchase of US$40,000 ($8.4m) worth of equipment for the Physics Lab at the University of Guyana which was destroyed by a fire in 2015. A release yesterday from UG said that ...

In order for scientists to know how equipment will fare in space, they must test tools in a variety of manners — vibrations, ...

Some instruments in teaching laboratories may look old-fashioned, but those wooden boxes can hold surprisingly advanced equipment. George Herold describes his career designing experiments for ...

Holmarc Opto-Mechatronics manufactures a variety of scientific and engineering instruments for research, industry, and education, including imaging instruments, measuring instruments, spectroscopy, ...

Jonathan F. Reichert and his company, TeachSpin, are building complex devices the way few physics labs are making them nowadays: less complex, and with old-fashioned materials. Those kinds of ...

Physics lab courses are vital to science education, providing hands-on experience and technical skills that lectures can’t offer. Yet, it’s challenging for those in Physics Education Research (PER) to ...