Researchers in the US have revealed that an emerging class of quantum sensors, called superconducting microwire single-photon detectors (SMSPDs), could spot high-energy particles and dark matter with ...

Something invisible holds the universe intact. It outweighs everything you can see—every star, every gas cloud, every ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, interacting very weakly with ordinary matter. These characteristics make it impossible to detect using ...

Mark Thomson is the newly appointed director general of CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is the world’s biggest particle physics laboratory, and its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) smashes particles ...

A new type of self-interacting dark matter could provide solutions to three very different cosmic puzzles, new research ...

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Professor of Theoretical Physics Risto Paatelainen from the University of Turku in Finland has spent nearly ten years working ...

A mysterious glow of gamma rays at the center of the Milky Way has long hinted at dark matter, but the lack of similar signals in smaller dwarf galaxies has cast doubt on that idea. Now, researchers ...