nuclear force

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Kim wants to overcome the limits of a nuclear force that is purely land-based.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

This is essentially a tension in the model where something doesn't add up when examining the nuclear force that binds together protons, neutrons and other particles.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2024

A few have also pursued the axion, a nearly massless particle originally proposed to solve a different problem with the theory of the strong nuclear force.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 20, 2024

Scientists have gained new insights into the weak nuclear force from detailed studies of the beta decays of the "mirror" nuclei lithium-8 and boron-8.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2024

The strong nuclear force has a curious property called confinement: it always binds particles together into combinations that have no color.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking