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

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

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 ...

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

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

Modern physics is filled with theories that challenge human understanding of existence. Concepts like the multiverse, ...

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 ...