The PICO-60 dark matter bubble chamber experiment has produced a new dark matter limit after analysis of data from the most recent run.
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Berkeley Lab is leading the construction of a mile-deep experiment that seeks to solve a science mystery.
New experiments will help astronomers uncover the sources that helped make the universe transparent.
The Presidential Early Career Awards highlight the key role that the administration places in encouraging and accelerating American innovation to grow our economy and tackle our greatest challenges.
Scientists furthered studies of the Higgs boson, neutrinos, dark matter, dark energy and cosmic inflation and continued the search for undiscovered particles, forces and principles.
Theorists think dark matter was forged in the hot aftermath of the Big Bang.
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), a next-generation dark matter detector that will be at least 100 times more sensitive than its predecessor, has cleared another approval milestone and is on schedule to begin its deep-underground hunt for theoretical particles, known as weakly interacting massive particles, in 2020.
What can our cosmic neighbors tell us about dark matter and the early universe?
How do scientists know what percentages of the universe are made up of dark matter and dark energy? Cosmologist Risa Wechsler of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology explains. Watch the 3-minute video.
From SLAC, June 1, 2016: Fermilab is one of the collaborating groups preparing to build an ultrasensitive ‘eye’ for an elusive form of matter.