The next generation of dark matter detectors has arrived. A massive new effort to detect the elusive substance has reported its first results. Following a time-honored tradition of dark matter hunters ...

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What is the nature of dark matter? A new experiment led by Columbia University physics professors aims to find out.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A tiny particle that acts like a wave is gaining ground as the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Every second, 100 trillion phantasmic little particles called ...

One of the great mysteries of modern science is dark matter. We know dark matter exists thanks to its effects on other objects in the cosmos, but we have never been able to directly see it. And it s ...

Dark matter is claimed to make up over 80% of all matter in the universe, but scientists have never seen it. We only assume it exists because, without it, the behavior of stars, planets and galaxies ...

"If you think about it like a radio, the search for dark matter is like tuning the dial to search for one particular radio station. Our method is like doing a scan of 100,000 radio stations." When you ...

Now is a surreal time to be a dark matter researcher. Even as research funding is being cut by governments around the world, dark matter remains one of the biggest and most exciting open problems in ...

How do you think the dark matter problem is solved?” Vera C. Rubin urgently asked me, within minutes of our being introduced at a 2009 Women in Astronomy conference. To this day, I can’t remember what ...

Jason Lindsey, a nationally recognized STEM educator and science communicator, shared several engaging science experiments ...