stars-astronomers have known for 70 years that the matter we see cannot constitute all the matter in the universe. If it did, galaxies would fly apart. Recent calculations indicate that ordinary ...

Scientists have long been puzzled by dark matter, an elusive substance that makes up about 27% of the universe. Recent breakthroughs in research are shedding light on its mysterious nature, ...

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The new 31-kilometer (19.2 mi) International Linear Collider (ILC) is finally ready for construction, according to CERN and the Linear Collider Collaboration. The ILC will initially augment the LHC's ...

For centuries, scientists have puzzled over globular clusters, the dense star systems that orbit galaxies without dark matter. Using ultra-detailed simulations, researchers recreated their origins and ...

Physicists have proposed that a mirror universe alongside our own might explain dark matter ­– and we might be able to see traces of its stars ...

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Supersymmetry in twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides reveals energy bands with both trivial and non-trivial topology and demonstrates spontaneous symmetry breaking driven by Coulomb ...

REGULAR readers of this column know that when it comes to dark matter candidates, I am something of an axion superfan. This hypothetical particle was theorised in the 1970s as part of a solution to a ...