Understanding the universe's building blocks, the Standard Model categorizes particles and explains forces, yet leaves ...

For over 50 years, physicists have generally agreed that the interactions between elementary particles are governed by four fundamental forces: the strong force, weak force, electromagnetic force and ...

An analysis of the jumps of a hydrogen atom’s electron has yielded a new, precise value for the Rydberg constant, a fundamental quantity in physics 1. The Rydberg constant is related to hydrogen’s ...

There are four fundamental forces in the Universe. These forces govern all the ways matter can interact, from the sound of an infant’s laugh to the clustering of galaxies a billion light-years away.

At long last, a unified theory combining gravity with the other fundamental forces—electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces—is within reach. Bringing gravity into the fold has been the ...

The research, published in the academic journal Nature, represents an essential step in quantum computing and demonstrates its potential by directly simulating fundamental interactions with Google's ...

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 ...

It appears that we live on the knife-edge, where only the narrowest combination of values for the fundamental constants allow life, and especially conscious life, to arise. The fundamental constants ...

The heaviest version of oxygen ever created falls apart mysteriously quickly. This finding implies a problem with our understanding of a fundamental force of nature. Yosuke Kondo at the Tokyo ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists from ETH Zurich, in collaboration with teams from Germany and Australia, have made strides in the search for a potential ...

Vlatko Vedral has had funding from The Templeton and the Moore Foundations. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has had funding from the NSF, DoE, NASA, FQxI and Heising-Simons Foundation. She is a member of the ...