On a mountain in northern Chile, scientists are carefully assembling the intricate components of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin ...

Analyzing billion-year-old rocks, researchers at Virginia Tech hope to find traces of dark matter. The idea was first ...

These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the ...

Nov. 12, 2024 — The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies.

The results of such interactions are visible in the crystal lattice of the matter. For instance, in a collision with an ...

“We’re looking at matter that’s pushed to its absolute limits,” Broodo said. “Once you figure that out, you have potentially ...

Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear ...

Oct. 17, 2024 — A research team is exploring new battery technologies for grid energy storage. The team's recent results suggest that iron, when treated with the ... Study Highlights Complex ...

The actual connection between physics and molecular biology is that curvature and torsion are the most probable solutions ...

After being awarded $3.5 million from the National Science Foundation ... to explain away dark matter (Modified Newtonian dynamics, etc...), dark matter and dark energy are still the best theories ...

Science isn’t scary, but it can be spooky! For Halloween, we’re highlighting some “spooky” research that the Department of ...

With advancements in imaging technology, the first successful dark matter detector might turn out to be an ancient rock. The visible universe — every potato, gas giant, steamy romance novel, black ...