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

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.

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

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

Physicists have uncovered the fascinating world of “rotating crystals” — solids made of spinning particles that behave in ...

New strategies may soon allow scientists to test dark energy theories within our own solar system, linking cosmic-scale physics to local observation. Science advances through a cycle of proposing ...

The Chinese particle physicist Chen-Ning Yang died on 18 October at the age of 103. Yang shared half of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics with Tsung-Dao Lee for their theoretical work that overturned ...