Moon-Ho Jo, director of the IBS Center for Van der Waals Quantum Solids in Korea, tells Physics World how breakthroughs in ...

As the story is usually told, science began when some deep thinkers in ancient Greece decided to reject the popular mythological explanations for various natural phenomena. Those early philosophers ...

Breaking down how nuclear explosions function using basic atomic physics and what causes their devastating power.

Physics plays a basic role in science, engineering, and technology. It deals with the physical world all around us at the most fundamental level, seeking to understand the energy transformations of ...

The scientific Nobels announced this week — in Physiology or Medicine, Physics and Chemistry — honored achievements rooted in fundamental research from decades ago. By Katrina Miller Katrina Miller ...

Critical thinking: It is vital to create an environment in which fundamental science can thrive. (Courtesy: iStock/Pobytov) History teaches us that fundamental science is critical to the development ...

General Physics for Majors course designed by CU Boulder Professors Eric Cornell and Paul Beale shows students that the furthest reaches of science are built on fundamental concepts The Nobel laureate ...

The Department of Physics and Engineering Physics offers major programs of lecture and laboratory instruction leading to the bachelor of science in physics and the bachelor of science in engineering ...

For most of the 20th century, physicists largely ignored living systems. They understood living things as machines, albeit ones made of gooey parts. A subfield called biophysics uncovered specific ...