Bates has welcomed a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors joined the college during the 2025-2026 academic year.

Why can’t design objects be inspired by particle physics?”  British artists Fiona Raby and Anthony Dunne posed the question to a crowd in the Goldsmith Lecture Hall, part of the School of Architecture ...

The team used an AI method known as equation discovery to develop a model to simulate the interactions between small eddies—circular, vortex-like currents—and large-scale ones. These interactions are ...

The Physics of Sailing find themselves aboard a unique intersection of sailing practice and a traditional science class.

If you've ever watched a glass blower at work, you've seen a material behaving in a very special way. As it cools, the viscosity of molten glass increases steadily but gradually, allowing it to be ...

SIU alumni Charlie McCann and Marcia Allen met in Browne Auditorium, a large lecture hall in the center of the SIU campus, on ...

Senior Lucas Menendez works in a top cardiovascular research lab on campus and started the “Healthy Hearts” student club, ...

The 2026 edition of the traditional Boltzmann Lecture will be held on Monday, February 23rd, at 14:00, in Room 128–129. The lecture is organized by the Statistical Physics group at SISSA, close to ...

Image courtesy of Business Insider By Tim McGuire This is an independently submitted op-ed and does not reflect the views of The Tower. We’ve all been there before: stuck in a lecture hall of over 50 ...

Purdue University physics professor Erica Carlson explains why static electricity is worse in winter and offers practical ...

Master the concept of internal energy with ease in MI Physics Lecture Chapter 7! This video breaks down the fundamentals of internal energy, helping you understand how energy is stored and transferred ...

Struggling to understand energy quantization? In this MI Physics Lecture Chapter 8, you’ll learn the concept of energy quantization quickly and clearly with step-by-step explanations designed for ...