Of the four known fundamental forces of nature, the weak nuclear force is the one with the least obvious purpose. Gravity holds stars together and keeps us on the ground. The electromagnetic force ...

The Standard Model encompasses four forces: the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, the electromagnetic force, and the gravitational force. All four forces govern the way our universe works.

Through the weak nuclear force, one quark flavor can transmute into another. However, current data and theory indicate that ...

Recently published Signal discussions in which senior Trump administration officials admit they “hate bailing out” America’s ...

That at least is the case with the strong nuclear force, one of four fundamental forces of nature (the others being electromagnetism, gravity and the weak nuclear force). The strong force holds ...

My research utilizes ultra-relativistic collisions of heavy nuclei, first at the Large Hadron Collider and eventually at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, to experimentally investigate the emergent ...

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