There are few sports more exciting than playoff baseball, but behind every pitch there is also a fascinating story of physics ...

The strongest force in the universe is called, aptly, the strong force. We never get to witness its fearsome power because it works only across subatomic distances, where it binds quarks together ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking study reveals how neurons sense and transmit mechanical forces across their membranes—a key to understanding touch, movement, and development.

The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest rules of all.

By using something called a quantum grid, scientists have found a clever way to simultaneously measure momentum and position ...

Machine learning models are designed to take in data, to find patterns or relationships within those data, and to use what ...

Over the last few decades, there have been quite a few science-related books with one-word titles. “Cod” and “Salt” by Mark Kurlansky come to mind, as does Dava Sobel’s “Longitude.” Such books promise ...