nuclear force

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In five years, China’s nuclear force has tripled to 600 warheads.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 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 performed a new, more sensitive measurement of beta decay properties to hunt for a theorized feature of the weak nuclear force not currently included in the Standard Model.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2024

However, there is another property of the strong nuclear force, called asymptotic freedom, that makes the concept of quarks and gluons well defined.

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