A new type of self-interacting dark matter could provide solutions to three very different cosmic puzzles, new research ...

Maybe dark matter talks to itself, according to a new proposal, and that might just explain two cosmological mysteries at once. Dark matter is the name astronomers give to the mysterious substance ...

In a bid to spot the elusive fundamental particle, the neutrino, a team of researchers from various universities and national laboratories in the US has tightened the limits on its existence and mass.

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(Nanowerk News) A team led by Prof Dmitry Budker has continued their search for dark matter within the framework of the 'Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment' (or 'CASPEr' for short). The CASPEr ...

Most matter and about a quarter of the mass-energy in the universe is thought to be made of dark matter, but we still don't know what the stuff is and can't detect it. We do know that it holds the ...

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