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Inside the search for dark matter

12/17/24

Ali Sundermier

About 30 years ago an "ideas guy" and a team builder joined forces to search for the invisible bulk of existence.

An illustration featuring a model of the solar system

11/07/23

Can we fit the universe in a box?

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a computer answer all of the biggest questions in the universe?

10/30/23

Celebrating Dark Matter Day in Latin America

Scientists, artists, communicators and physics fans find creative ways to mark the unofficial holiday devoted to dark matter.

Illustration of people wearing Halloween costumes

10/26/23

Physics fashion and collider couture

Symmetry is back with more physics-themed Halloween costumes.

10/19/23

New map of space precisely measures nearly 400,000 nearby galaxies

The Siena Galaxy Atlas will be a tool for research into how galaxies form and evolve, gravitational waves, dark matter and the structure of our universe.

Illustration of Einstein shining a flashlight ahead of the "Spacetime Express" train

10/17/23

Spacetime: All the universe’s a stage

In the 1900s, Albert Einstein unified the concepts of space and time, giving us a useful new way to picture the universe.

10/10/23

CERN opens Science Gateway

About 1,400 people attended the grand opening of CERN’s new science education center.

Illustration of Galileo dropping antimatter off the Tower of Pisa

09/27/23

Antimatter falls down

Results from the ALPHA experiment confirm that matter and antimatter react to gravity in a similar way.

This artist’s rendering shows LuSEE-Night atop the Blue Ghost spacecraft scheduled to deliver the experiment to the far side of the moon.

09/26/23

Listening to the radio on the far side of the moon

LuSEE-Night will demonstrate whether an experiment to search for ancient radio signals can survive the moon’s unforgiving environment.

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