The Forces behind Capillary Action

The seemingly unintuitive phenomena of capillary action, which enables liquids to rise up narrow tubes, even against external forces such as gravity, underpins the fundamental way in which nature and mechanisms in our everyday life operate. Without it, the diverse and abundant plant-life that populates Earth could not thrive, our tear ducts would not be

The Standard Model of Particle Physics: An Introduction

Developed in the early 1970s, the standard model is the reigning theory of particle physics, classifying all known elementary particles and describing 3 of the 4 fundamental forces of nature – namely the electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions – and how they interact. Fundamental Forces All forces observed in everyday life arise from one of