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The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest rules of all.

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Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called ...

A ccording to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic ...

ZIONSVILLE, Ind. — Judy Birt has been stressed for months after learning her parents’ trusts owed the Internal Revenue Service nearly $500,000. The family did not challenge the amount or ask for an ...

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

A major in the Alaska Air National Guard has been charged in federal court with attempting to set up a sexual encounter with a minor at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Maj. Edward Louis Ehlert, 33, ...

From Franklin’s kite in a storm to Einstein’s special relativity to QED - electromagnetism has gone on to explain everything ...

As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing ...