Electrons are probably the most familiar elementary particles, but the Standard Model of physics, which describes the interactions of particles and almost all forces, recognizes 10 total ...

Computer simulations of high-energy particles are pushing the boundaries of what we can learn about the interactions that happen inside particle colliders ...

They are the carriers of the strong force, one of the four fundamental forces.Force-carrying particles such as the gluon, as well as the photon for the electromagnetic force, and the W and Z ...

On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a three-year study to set a ...

For decades, scientists have suspected that a fifth fundamental force might exist. Unlike the four already identified ...

The Standard Model explains these fundamental particles and three of the four forces. If they manage to prove the existence of this force, it would be entirely new physics outside the Standard Model.

Smashing atomic nuclei together at mind-bending speeds recreates the fiery conditions of the early universe and scientists ...

While the Standard Model (SM) describes all known fundamental particles and many of the interactions between them, it fails ...

Scientists think the force could be carried by hypothetical ultralight particles, a proposed type of dark matter (which itself has yet to be directly detected).

At long last, a unified theory combining gravity with the other fundamental forces—electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces—is within reach. Bringing gravity into the fold has ...