Scientists have retreated to deep beneath the French Alps to broaden the hunt for dark matter particles that could be "WIMPier than WIMPS." ...

Experimental physicist Chelsea Bartram has been fascinated by radio since childhood. She earned a ham radio license, built a few antennas and realized she could hear people speaking in foreign ...

New simulations tilt the scales for competing theories about excess gamma ray light at the center of the galaxy ...

The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...

About 30 years ago an "ideas guy" and a team builder joined forces to search for the invisible bulk of existence. Over a decade ago, dark-matter experts Daniel Akerib and Thomas Shutt joined the ...

Dark matter is notoriously antisocial, refusing to interact with light and "normal" matter, making it effectively invisible. But what scientists aren't sure about is if dark matter interacts with ...

Physicists are preparing for the next generation of dark-matter experiments. Imagine all the matter in the universe is a set of billiard balls on a pool table, each awaiting the cue ball’s strike. If ...

"The difference between a supercollider and a black hole is that black holes are far away, but nevertheless, these particles will get to us.” To unlock the secrets of dark matter, scientists could ...

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