Fundamental Interaction

Why matter dominates over antimatter in our universe has long been a major cosmic mystery to physicists. A new finding by the world's largest particle collider has revealed a clue.

The pharmaceutical giant has built a digital and data platform based on cloud and standardisation, from which it is exploring technology opportunities in AI and quantum computing

Dark energy is a mystery so daunting that it stretches and strains our most robust theories. The universe is expanding, driven by the unknown force that we've named Dark Energy. Dark Energy is also accelerating the rate of expansion. If scientists could figure out why, it would open up a whole new avenue of understanding.

Scientists have long sought the particle that carries the force of gravity, but a new theoretical model tosses out that idea entirely – and shows how it could be tested in experiments

For the first time, researchers transformed light into a quantum crystalline structure to create a "supersolid" that's both solid and liquid at the same time. Here's what that means, and why it's such a big step forward.

Physics is weird. Especially when you're dealing with moving reference frames.

Because we haven't found anything yet, we've started to wonder if dark matter might be lighter or heavier than we thought.

Einstein's theories support the science behind a cosmic string-enabled time-travel loophole. But could it actually work in practice?

Using a catalog of 26,041 white dwarfs observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers have confirmed a long-predicted effect in these ancient ultradense stars.

There's an enormous existential question that we've wondered about ever since we first realized that the Universe does, in fact, obey physical laws at all: why is our Universe the precise way it is…

What do the integers have in common with the symmetries of a triangle? In the 19th century, mathematicians invented groups as an answer to this question.

Since its 2012 detection, the Higgs boson has fascinated researchers for its unique role in separating forces of nature. Find out how the "God" particle helps shape our universe.

Deep inside what we perceive as solid matter, the landscape is anything but stationary. The interior of the building blocks of the atom's nucleus—particles called hadrons that a high school student would recognize as protons and neutrons—are made up of a seething mixture of interacting quarks and gluons, known collectively as partons.

What do the integers have in common with the symmetries of a triangle? In the 19th century, mathematicians invented groups as an answer to this question.

Scientists potentially uncovered a glueball particle, an enigmatic entity believed to be made entirely of the strong nuclear force's gluons.

The Big Bang's mysteries get a new twist.

New discoveries demystify the bizarre force that binds atomic nuclei together

Researchers have measured the gravitational pull exhibited by the smallest mass yet, a breakthrough that could lead to a quantum theory of gravity at last.

A renovated Chinese underground lab has expanded the search for dark matter, offering new promise for the detection of this abundant yet elusive substance.

A concept from theoretical physics helped confirm the strange connection between two completely different areas of mathematics