Smarter study help: LLM-powered tutors like Physics-STAR offer step-by-step guidance that boosts efficiency and understanding, especially for complex physics problems. Beyond the classroom: AI tools ...

Machine learning is becoming an essential part of a physicist’s toolkit. How should new students learn to use it? When Radha Mastandrea started her undergraduate physics program at MIT in 2015, she ...

Artificial intelligence systems based on neural networks—such as ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek or Gemini—are extraordinarily ...

West Virginia University’s physics and astronomy department held a free demonstration on campus today. Graduate students in ...

Researchers use statistical physics and "toy models" to explain how neural networks avoid overfitting and stabilize learning in high-dimensional spaces.

In recent courses, I have noticed two troubling practices of physics students. The first is the student response to homework problems. I hear the following kind of statements all too often: "Oh, you ...

Parts of the brain not traditionally associated with learning science become active when people are confronted with solving physics problems, a new study shows. The researchers, led by Eric Brewe, PhD ...

From adaptive problem sequencing to physics-informed simulations, AI is transforming how students learn and apply physics. New tools now guide learners step-by-step, visualize complex concepts, and ...

A new study showed that, when confronted with physics problems, new parts of a student's brain are utilized after receiving instruction in the topic. Parts of the brain not traditionally associated ...