However, it does not account for the other three fundamental forces. The Standard Model of particle physics explains the electromagnetic, nuclear strong, and nuclear weak forces. It describes the ...

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

A new map of cosmic expansion suggests that dark energy evolves over time, hinting that the universe doesn’t work the way we ...

The standard model of particle physics is our best theory of the elementary particles and forces that make up our world: particles and antiparticles, such as electrons and positrons, are described ...

The Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) has been observing large parts of the southern sky over a period of eight years in order to ...

But the biggest story by far is the second release of data from the DESI survey of the universe, which could upend the standard model: An emerging generation of cosmological surveys launched this ...

Our standard unit of length is the metre, m. This is useful for things of a human scale but less good for measuring very small or very large objects. That is why we use other units that are ...

A groundbreaking new dataset containing information on 18.7 million celestial objects —the largest ever assembled—is now ...