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A funny thing happened on my way to class

Joanne O’Meara on the benefits of injecting a little humour into physics teaching

Graph showing results from a student survey

**The fight for physics: how combat robotics on TV’s BattleBots turns students on to science**

TV robot fights are not just entertainment – they can also help turn students on to physics and engineering, as Robert P Crease finds out

Why now is the time to change bad exam habits

Paolo Elias says that the COVID-19 pandemic offers the chance to revamp how we assess physics students at school and college

Reaching for Mars: advice for realizing the biggest dreams

Andrew Glester reviews Dream Big: How to Reach for Your Stars by Abigail Harrison

Inspiring young children to careers in science, the physics and economics of heat pumps

This podcast features education specialist Carol Davenport and our industry columnist James McKenzie

Physics in the pandemic: making particles from space tangible for schoolkids

Andrew Ferguson took a muon detector project into UK schools – and kept the study going despite COVID-19 restrictions

Spoilt for choice: APS March meeting explores the wide range of careers available to physicists

Laura Hiscott hears from physicists working in a range of different careers at the March meeting of the American Physical Society

Picture of a pair of sneakers from above with arrows pointing in different directions drawn on the ground around the sneakers

How we can widen career aspirations for the next generation

Carol Davenport says it is important that children are brought up with a positive attitude towards science

Reinventing the science museum

Margaret Harris reviews Idea Colliders: the Future of Science Museums by Michael John Gorman

Self Conscious Gene by Marc Quinn, at the Science Museum London

How working with physics societies can give students a voice

Sam Lavery describes how getting involved in the physics community helped him both academically and personally

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Atomic and molecular | Conference 52nd IOP Annual Plasma Physics Conference 7—10 April 2026 | Aberdeen, UK
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Education and outreach | Public event Synergy for Science – Public Lecture 13 July 2026 | Glasgow, UK

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