How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of the elementary school physics canon. But the world is messier than a textbook. Scientists in the Harvard John A.

For the 25th anniversary of its landmark Kaczmarczik Lecture on March 12, Drexel’s Department of Physics went big — hosting viral sensation Tatiana Erukhimova, PhD for a record number of attendees.

Physics is fun, or so the science popularizers like to claim. Anyone who is up all night writing a PhD thesis is likely to disagree, as will final-year undergraduates with exams on quantum mechanics ...