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

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

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

How do embryos develop? Why does the cortex of the mammalian brain fold? How do we feel touch at our fingertips? These and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Particle physics describes the universe at the smallest scale. This includes subatomic particles, like protons and neutrons, as well as elementary particles, like quarks and electrons, which make up ...

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

People with fast street cars like to put them through their paces at the quarter-mile track. One way to get your quarter-mile time is to just buckle up and put the pedal to the metal. But if your ...