/newsroom/ en /newsroom/news/list/2025/02/21/illuminating-the-protons-inner-workings Scientists have now mapped the forces acting inside a proton, showing in unprecedented detail how quarks鈥攖he tiny particles within鈥攔espond when hit by high-energy photons. February 21 2025 Rhiannon Koch /newsroom/news/list/2025/02/21/illuminating-the-protons-inner-workings