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The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Just Detected A Rare ‘Relic’ of the Big Bang
Inverse· 7 days agoAbout a trillion tiny particles called neutrinos pass through you every second. Created during the...
CERN gives green light to build new experiment to search for unknown particles
Phys.org· 6 days agoAfter many years of preparations, CERN has approved a new experiment: the Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP). Physicist Alexey Boyarsky was involved from the start. "Ultimately, we try to capture ...
A Metal Block and a Beam Could Finally Unveil the Universe’s Hidden Particles
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 13 hours ago“You see, we observe things that should be impossible according to the standard model. That’s not...
Advanced experimental setup expands the hunt for hidden dark matter particles
Phys.org· 8 hours agoScientists predict that dark matter particles would be very weakly interacting. This means detectors...
UW–Madison physicist Francis Halzen elected to National Academy of Sciences
University of Wisconsin - Madison· 7 days agoA Vilas Research Professor and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor of Physics, Halzen directs the...
NASA Technology Grants to Advance Moon to Mars Space Exploration
The Jacksonville Daily News· 5 days agoNASA has awarded nearly $1.5 million to academic, non-profit, and business organizations to advance...
Two Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named AAAS Fellows
Newswise· 21 hours agoThe American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has recognized two staff scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven...
Why We Love Time Travel Stories
Esquire via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoTime is an instrument of power, an object of faith, and an influence on our history. But in our fictions, it's more than just a cerebral quagmire—it gets...
Collapsing Sheets of Spacetime Could Explain Dark Matter and Why the Universe ‘Hums’
Scientific American· 5 days ago“As long as they live for long enough, they will always become large cosmological beasts,” says...
The universe could be filled with ultralight black holes that can't die
Phys.org· 1 day agoAlthough we've never detected primordial black holes, they have all the necessary properties of dark matter, such as not emitting light and the ability to cluster around galaxies. If they exist ...