01/09/13 Chemistry World Crystals aim to light up dark matter German scientists hunting dark matter are set to produce half a tonne of high-purity calcium tungstate for their detectors, one 1kg crystal at a time.
01/08/13 Wired Galactic pile-up may point to mysterious new dark force in the universe By closely mapping the mass of an enormous galactic collision, astronomers may have uncovered a type of force that only affects dark matter.
01/06/13 Physics Mixed feelings about a rare event The measurement of a rare-meson decay is an experimental achievement worth celebrating, but so far, no new physics beyond the standard model is indicated.
01/03/13 Berkeley Lab How do you know if you ran through a wall? Researchers have devised a straightforward way to test an intriguing idea about the nature of dark energy and dark matter.
A first-person view of physics history 10/15/24 Michael Riordan has spent decades ruminating on the history of physics, including events he participated in himself.