Staff photos / David Skolnick Brad Burgoyne, left, and Quinlan Bulick, Poland Seminary High School seniors, stack folded index cards to build a house of cards at the Youngstown State University’s ...

Once a month, Penn State science students put away their 400-level textbooks and get back to the basics, teaching students at Park Forest Elementary about physics and engineering. Emma Steinebronn, a ...

PUMPKINS IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE. IT’S AN EXPERIMENT THAT’S DRAWN HALLOWEEN AND PHYSICS FANS ALIKE TO THE CAMPUS. CALEB CALIFANO WAS THERE TO WITNESS THE PROJECT THAT REQUIRED QUITE A CLEANUP AFTER.

Physics, especially the part about forces and motion, often feels like a maze of confusing concepts and formulas. If you’ve ever stared at a problem about an object moving or a force acting and ...