• Science gets personal

    FamJam aims to support the teaching of engineering in middle school using standards-based and culturally relevant approaches. With guidance from experienced collaboration facilitators, the goal is to create a community-centered ready-to-implement set of science lessons by adapting a powerful standards-based curriculum.

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  • Silk made into strong plastic-like materials with 6G potential

    Silk threads can be fused into transparent, plastic-like materials that twist terahertz frequencies of light, according to research led by Imperial College London, University of Michigan Engineering and Tufts University. The findings could enable components of 6G networks to be made from upcycled silk.

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  • Defining Gravity

    From spacetime to the science of dance, from quantum mechanics to quarks, from wavelengths to watts—the popular series, Saturday Morning Physics, makes science accessible to viewers near and far.

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  • A new resource for mastering the wind

    The study offers a detailed characterization of how sails behave during a wide range of tacking motions and with an array of sail types. Its findings serve as both a framework for improved sail designs and a pathway for making today’s autonomous sailboats—vital in oceanographic research—more efficient and reliable when changing direction in unpredictable wind conditions.

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