The same pulling force that causes “tears” in a glass of wine also shapes embryos. It’s another example of how genes exploit mechanical forces for growth and development. Sip a glass of wine, and you ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

What if the next new theory of the universe didn’t come from a human mind, but from an artificial one? In a development that has left the scientific community both awestruck and unsettled, artificial ...

Discover how everyday bathroom products like toothpaste and shampoo illustrate the fascinating physics of soft matter and its ...

Learn how to analyze the forces between three electric charges using fundamental electrostatics principles. This video explains force interactions, directions, and net force in a clear, step-by-step ...

Physicists have uncovered the fascinating world of “rotating crystals” — solids made of spinning particles that behave in strange, almost living ways. These odd materials can twist instead of stretch, ...

He and a colleague created a sensation in 1956 by proposing that one of the four forces of nature might violate a law of physics. By George Johnson Chen Ning Yang, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical ...