In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

In recent years, a group of Hungarian researchers have made headlines with a bold claim. They say they’ve discovered a new particle — dubbed X17 — that requires the existence of a fifth force of ...

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 ...

Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – ...

The search for quantum gravity is the next big step in physics, as researchers seek to unify the physics of the very small ...

Two physicists in the US have come up with a way to use a “bubble” of ultracold atoms to measure extremely small forces. The scheme, which has yet to be tested experimentally, involves monitoring the ...

Tiny forces: measuring the effect of swimming bacteria. (Courtesy: Rhett S Miller / UC Regents) A tiny “force probe” that can measure sub-piconewton forces when inserted directly into liquid media has ...