If you took introductory physics, you learned about the “fundamental forces.” It goes something like this: All interactions are the result of one or more of five basic forces: strong nuclear, weak ...

A “muon shot” aims to study the basic forces of the cosmos. But meager federal budgets could limit its ambitions. By Dennis Overbye and Katrina Miller Friday, Dec. 8: This story was updated to include ...

While the engineering behind modern aircraft is incredibly complicated, the basic concepts behind getting airborne is simpler than you might think. “So the fundamentals, the physics of flight, deal ...

Professors find ways to show students that physics is more than just a set of laws and equations. Physics is more than experiments and data. It’s also a set of underlying ideas that connect and make ...