Part one of a four part series on the fundamental forces (or interactions) of physics begins with the strong force or strong ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have made a major breakthrough that takes us a step closer to developing a nuclear ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

Physicists long believed time was a basic feature of the universe. But it may just emerge from cosmic information.

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 ...

Gravity is the most familiar of nature’s forces. It keeps our feet planted on the ground and dictates the movements of ...

Stephen Wolfram, inventor of the Wolfram computational language and the Mathematica software, announced that he may have found a path to the holy grail of physics: A fundamental theory of everything.

It could rock the very foundations of modern science. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Just four numbers underpin the laws of ...

There may be a fifth fundamental force of the universe that we haven’t documented yet — and, according to new research, our best bet of uncovering it may not lie in deep space, but in objects ...

For centuries, ever since we realized that every star we can see in the night sky is a Sun just like our own ⁠— with possibly its own solar system, planets, and possibly even life ⁠— humanity has ...

The names of the 2014 Breakthrough Prize winners in Fundamental Physics and Life Sciences were unveiled at an exclusive ceremony at the NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA. At a total awarded ...