‘Zombie Stars’ Might Be a Beacon in Our Search for Dark Matter
As physicist Cumrun Vafa once told me, puzzles in science often come in pairs, each serving as the…
Fusion reactors may be the key to uncovering dark matter particles
Nuclear fusion is often framed as a future source of clean energy. A new theoretical study is looking…
The biggest scientific breakthroughs of the last 25 years—and a few to watch
James Webb Space Telescope gives us the oldest ever look at the universe On December 25, 2021, space…
Giant underground detector inches nearer to detecting true dark matter
Dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up roughly 85 percent of the universe, is one of the…
Scientists May Have Finally Seen Dark Matter
The universe has no shortage of mysteries, many of which have puzzled us for ages. One of the…
Transforming sensitivity to new physics with single-top-quark events
The top quark, the heaviest known elementary particle, has captivated physicists since its discovery in the 1990s and…
NASA Completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Construction
NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner…
After nearly a century of looking, researchers may have finally detected dark matter
For nearly a century, something unseen has tugged at the cosmos. In the 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky…
Gamma-ray signal may reveal direct evidence of dark matter
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may have provided humanity’s first direct observational evidence of dark matter, according to…
NASA telescope data hints at first direct detection of dark matter
Dark matter has long been the universe’s most profound ghost, its existence confirmed only by the gravitational havoc…
A Physicist Ran the Numbers on What Would Happen if a Tiny Black Hole Passed Through Your Body
Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. A tiny black hole zipping through your body sounds like the kind of death dreamed…
The Answer To Physics’ Dark Matter Problem Could Lie In The Fifth Dimension
Researchers have been looking at everything, including supernovas, trying to uncover the mysteries of dark matter. Recent scientific studies…