The strong nuclear force may abruptly loosen its grip on the fundamental particles that make up matter at a special “critical ...

Of the four known fundamental forces of nature, the weak nuclear force is the one with the least obvious purpose. Gravity ...

Electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force are two distinct fundamental forces. That wasn’t always the case. How many fundamental forces are there in our universe? For particle physicists, answering ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic ...

College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) physicists at Syracuse University have launched a new tracking device to research the fundamental forces and particles in the universe. The device, known as the ...

Sometimes, the simplest explanation is the best one," Professor Gupta said. "Maybe the universe’s biggest secrets are just ...

Scientists have made a particle physics discovery that they say could mean nothing less than the upheaval of our entire model of the building blocks of the universe—if their results can be ...

The ATLAS collaboration recently measured the strength of the strong force to a record level of precision, but there’s still a long way to go toward understanding this fundamental force. In September, ...

According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe ...