On the hunt for dark matter | MIT News
Physicists across the globe are on a quest for a particle that makes up nearly 85 percent of…
6,800 feet below ground, in the search for dark matter, something has gone very, very cold
Six thousand eight hundred feet below the floor of an active nickel mine in northern Ontario, something has…
Scientists Heat Gold Hotter Than the Sun and It Doesn’t Melt
Researchers at SLAC’s Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) instrument used a laser to superheat a sample of gold.…
Physicists Blast Gold to Astonishing Temperatures, Overturning 40 Years of Physics
Gold usually melts at 1,300 kelvins—a temperature hotter than fresh lava from a volcano. But scientists recently shot…