Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Do you know which are the most abundant particles in the universe? It is neutrinos — small, chargeless, and nearly massless ...
The neutrino “fog” is beginning to materialize. Lightweight subatomic particles called neutrinos have begun elbowing their way into the data of experiments not designed to spot them. Two experiments, ...
Prof. Marrodán Undagoitia is a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany. Her research area is that of astroparticle physics, where she works on ...
Dark matter, the mysterious substance that may account for nearly 25 percent of the universe, has so far evaded direct observation. But researchers from UCLA, Columbia University and other ...
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), a next-generation dark matter detector, will replace the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment. The approval puts LZ on track to begin its deep-underground hunt for theoretical ...
Dark matter is claimed to make up over 80% of all matter in the universe, but scientists have never seen it. We only assume it exists because, without it, the behavior of stars, planets and galaxies ...
Physicists are preparing for the next generation of dark-matter experiments. Imagine all the matter in the universe is a set of billiard balls on a pool table, each awaiting the cue ball’s strike. If ...
The XENON experiment underground. Water tank (left) and three-story service building (right). Note humans at bottom right for scale. Photo: The XENON Experiment The search for dark matter has taken ...