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.

Deep inside every atom lies a restless world of quarks and gluons—the tiny building blocks that hold everything together, from rocks to stars. For decades, physicists have tried to understand how ...

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 ...