The discovery of what is potentially the smallest clump of dark matter ever seen strengthens the case for cold dark matter.

LIVERMORE, Calif. – Take a gold sample the size of the head of a push pin, shoot a laser through it, and suddenly more than 100 billion particles of anti-matter appear. The anti-matter, also known as ...

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A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

Long tubes, strong magnets, and bright lasers. Is that all it takes to entice the shyest particles in the universe to reveal themselves? Physicists working on the ALPS II experiment certainly hope so, ...

The researchers recorded a small number of unexplained signals suspected to be ... world-leading limit on how light dark matter interacts with electrons and atomic nuclei. Dark matter particles ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic ...

CERN physicists have shown that antimatter falls downward due to gravity, just like regular matter, according to a new paper published in the journal Nature. It's not a particularly surprising ...

The use of atomic clocks could help bring cosmology and astrophysics "down to Earth" by allowing scientists to investigate the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter in the lab. When you purchase ...

The Standard Model of particles and interactions is remarkably successful for a theory everyone knows is missing big pieces. It accounts for the everyday stuff we know like protons, neutrons, ...

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