Dark matter, although not visible, is believed to make up most of the total mass of the universe. One theory suggests that ultralight dark matter behaves like a continuous wave, which could exert ...

25 Jun 2025

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the natural mass range of the WIMP would precisely match the abundances needed to ...

25 Jun 2025

Three intertwined time directions may underpin everything, turning space into mere “paint on the canvas” and pushing physics toward a long-sought theory of everything.

26 Jun 2025

Nearly a decade ago, a detector searching for ghostly cosmic particles found two anomalous signals in Antarctic ice. But scientists haven’t been able to find anything similar.

20 Jun 2025

Despite being nominated nine times for the Nobel Prize in Physics, he never received the award — a glaring oversight that has sparked controversy in scientific circles.

26 Jun 2025

Nearly ten years ago, scientific instruments picked up strange radio pulses in Antarctica. Now, in a study recently published in Physical Review Letters, researchers take us a step closer to figuring ...

26 Jun 2025

While the Standard Model (SM) describes all known fundamental particles and many of the interactions between them, it fails to explain dark matter, dark energy and the apparent asymmetry between ...

23 Jun 2025

Don’t tell anyone, but we have a soft spot for brainy but hilarious humor. When you take genuinely funny content and then add a big dollop of science on top of it, you get something really special.

26 Jun 2025

This diffusion‑limited regime likely dominates for fluffier aggregates made of phytoplankton remains, fecal pellets, or dust‑laden snow. Less porous grains of sand or shell should still follow the ...

25 Jun 2025

Conventional accelerators use oscillating electric fields to drive charged particles to relativistic speeds. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, for example, uses radio-frequency oscillations to ...

24 Jun 2025