Neutrinos are among the strangest known particles, so lightweight that trillions pass through your body every second without a trace. However, for all their invisibility, they carry a mystery that’s ...

In a rare global collaboration, scientists from Japan and the United States joined forces to explore one of the universe’s ...

According to the laws of physics, matter and antimatter behave the same way and were formed in equal quantities in the Big ...

Ghost particles' can zoom through you without a trace. Scientists are getting to the bottom of this cosmic mystery ...

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Dark matter has two central properties: it has mass like regular matter, and unlike regular matter, it reacts weakly or not at all with light. Neutrinos satisfy these two criteria, but neutrinos move ...

New research reveals how ghost particles may break the universe’s symmetry, offering clues to why matter—and life—exist at all.

Giant worlds beyond the Solar System could be the probe we need to figure out how dark matter manifests in the Universe. According to a new study, one particular dark matter model could see the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Tiny solid particles – like pollutants, cloud droplets and medicine powders – form highly concentrated clusters in turbulent environments like smokestacks, clouds and pharmaceutical ...

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

Air pollution causes health problems and is attributable to some 50,000 annual deaths in the United States, but not all air pollutants pack the same punch. Scientists have tracked the scope of “PM 2.5 ...