The strongest force in the universe is called, aptly, the strong force. We never get to witness its fearsome power because it works only across subatomic distances, where it binds quarks together ...

Physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider have found a way to study the strong nuclear force, the binding agent inside every atomic nucleus, by analyzing collisions that almost did not happen.

We are getting closer to understanding when the strong nuclear force loosens its grip on the most basic constituents of matter, letting quarks and gluons inside particles abruptly turn into a hot ...