An international team of scientists says it has detected an intriguing signal that could hint at evidence of dark matter, offering a clue that might bring the mystery of the elusive substance one step ...

New research published in Physical Review Letters suggests that superconducting magnets used in dark matter detection experiments could function as highly precise gravitational wave detectors, thereby ...

How researchers propose to search for dark matter. The torsion balance is a geometrically asymmetric structure with a hollow “spherical shell” on the left and a “solid sphere” on the right. The impact ...

The doctoral thesis of Sophia Hollick, Ph.D. '25, a recent graduate of Yale's Wright Lab in professor Reina Maruyama's group, has significantly contributed to answering a decades-long question in her ...

Two direct-detection experiments see no evidence of a signal reported by their predecessor. In 1997, the DAMA/NaI experiment observed a signal whose annual variability was suggestive of dark matter.

QROCODILE has set record-breaking sensitivity in the search for dark matter, detecting signals at energy levels once thought impossible. These results may be just the first step toward finally ...

Physics is supposed to be predictable. Drop a ball, and gravity pulls it down. Heat water, and it boils. Light travels in straight lines. Yet throughout history, scientists have encountered ...

Ahead of the Season 2 premiere, the writer, a physicist by training, asked around. The answer? It’s complicated. By Connie Chang Connie Chang is a freelance contributor who writes regularly about TV.

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...

Scientists with NASA are launching enormous balloons, the size of a football stadium, from the Antarctic ice. They're carrying experiments on dark matter and other mysteries. Our next story takes us ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 178 applied, health, natural and social sciences journals, across many different publishers, chosen by an independent group of researchers. The ...