For years, a favorite suspect was a hypothetical particle called a WIMP, short for weakly interacting massive particle. The idea was appealing because such particles could have been produced naturally ...

02 Sep 2026

Dr. Yannick Ulrich received a €1.5M ERC grant to refine theoretical tools for experiments at CERN, improving precision in particle physics simulations.

03 Sep 2026

Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, but for decades physicists haven’t been able to directly observe it – that may have just changed ...

01 Sep 2026

A single flash of light recorded nearly a mile beneath South Dakota has left physicists both excited and stumped. The event, caught by the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter detector, is being described by ...

03 Sep 2026

Neutron imaging analysis by a particle physicist has revealed the cause of death of Scotty, the largest known Tyrannosaurus rex specimen.

06 Sep 2026

From a small town in Kerala to the frontiers of physics, Prof. E.C.G. Sudarshan’s lifelong pursuit of knowledge reshaped our understanding of light and quantum theory while maintaining strong Indian ...

03 Sep 2026

Modern physics can predict the behavior of particles with stunning accuracy, yet some of its biggest calculations fail on an almost unimaginable scale. One theory misses the universe’s vacuum energy ...

04 Sep 2026

It could have an entirely run-of-the-mill particle crashing into another ordinary particle. But physicists announced September 1 that there is a 99.5 percent chance that the collision was caused by ...

03 Sep 2026

Tiny, soft polymer particles—known as microgels—can help to stabilize extremely thin liquid jets. How this works is the finding of a study led by researchers at TU Darmstadt, which has been published ...

07 Sep 2026

The world's largest particle accelerator is now preparing for its next major scientific challenge: understanding dark matter, the invisible substance believed to account for a large share of the ...

02 Sep 2026

Spread the love“`html For decades, physicists have been grappling with one of the universe’s most profound and baffling mysteries: dark matter. This enigmatic substance, unseen and undetectable by our ...

06 Sep 2026