(Phys.org) —A trio of physicists is suggesting in a paper they've published in Physical Review Letters, that results from an experiment run in the early 1980's places constraints on the idea of a dark photon in theories ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- In trying to understand how everything came to be as it appears today, astrophysicists have put together theories that seek to explain how events transpired from the time of the Big Bang, till now. In so ...
Dark matter makes up about 27% of the matter and energy budget in the universe, but scientists do not know much about it. They do know that it is cold, meaning that the particles that make up dark matter are slow-moving. ...
Quantum Physics
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This prototype NIST sensor may help solve some mysteries of the universe by looking beyond the Standard Model.
General Physics
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The furthest galaxy ever observed is so far away that the starlight we now detect was emitted less than 500m years after the Big Bang. It has taken about 13 billion years to reach us. But there's a lot of things about a galaxy ...
Astronomy
Oct 17, 2017
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Once upon a time, the Universe was just a hot soup of particles. In those days, together with visible particles, other particles to us hidden or dark might have formed. Billions of years later scientists catalogued 17 types ...
General Physics
Mar 23, 2017
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A tiny, unseen force could potentially alter our basic understanding of the universe - if it really exists. Theoretical physicists at UC Irvine say they've found evidence for a fifth fundamental force of nature, carried by ...
General Physics
Aug 17, 2016
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Fermilab scientists are harnessing quantum technology in the search for dark matter.
General Physics
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