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

A new theory-based approach provides access to the minute transverse motion of quarks within protons. Nuclear physicists have developed a new theoretical framework that allows them to calculate a ...

Physicist Richard Feynman invented them to describe the interactions between real particles. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

Cells convert mechanical forces into signals that influence physiological processes, such as exercise strengthening bones. A ...

Biophysics is the study of physical phenomena and physical processes in living things, on scales spanning molecules, cells, tissues and organisms. Biophysicists use the principles and methods of ...

The holidays bring connection, tradition, and family time — but they can also bring tension when conversations about politics ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I ...

Simple Machines Made Simple,’ which raised more than seven times its target on Kickstarter, wants to demystify mechanical ...

A tool called AI-Newton can derive scientific laws from raw data, but is some way from developing human-like reasoning.