A scientist has observed a "gravitational anomaly" in certain star systems that could potentially upend a fundamental assumption about the universe, according to a new study. Motherboard rep… Read More

Dark Matter and Dark Energy: The Invisible Forces Shaping the Universe Dark matter and dark energy are two mysterious and invisible forces that have puzzled scientists for decades. These eni… Read More

Unraveling the Mysteries of Dark Matter: A Deep Dive into the Universe’s Invisible Web The Universe’s Invisible Web: Exploring Dark Matter In the vast expanse of the cosmos, an e… Read More

Alan Chodos and James RiordonMIT Press, $32.95 We live in a sea of neutrinos. Every second, trillions of them pass through our bodies. They come from the sun, nuclear reactors, collisions of… Read More

Introduction to Dark Matter:The universe is full of mysteries, and one of the most significant is the nature of dark matter. Dark matter is a type of matter that does not interact with light… Read More

Gift a year of science journalismThe weirdest subatomic particles require enormous equipment to studyOf all the elementary particles in the universe, neutrinos may be the strangest. Sometime… Read More

sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: A physics mystery has come to an end, with a resolution about as shocking as "the butler did it." For a decade, physicists have pondered w… Read More

Experts were already treating the discovery as such a sensation that even the word “deserves a Nobel Prize”: in 2018, scientists from the “MiniBooNE” experiment at t… Read More

Researchers, during an advanced physics study, have yielded the firmest piece of evidence to date of sterile neutrinos, bizarre particles that can travel through the matter with no interplay… Read More

It’s getting closer: the rotation of black holes could reveal whether dark bosons are present – hypothetical carriers of dark matter. Because their presence should significantl… Read More

Quantum gravity tries to combine Einstein’s general theory of relativity with quantum mechanics. … [+] Quantum corrections to classical gravity are visualized as loop diagrams… Read More

Dark matter had put to shame every type of detector designed to find it. Due to its dominant gravitational footprint in the Universe, dark matter represents approximately 85 % of the total m… Read More

The setup The Standard Model of particle physics is starting to show signs of breaking down as Antarctica’s IceCube observatory reports findings of a new ‘ghost particle&rsquo… Read More

There's something mysterious coming up from the frozen ground in Antarctica, and it could break physics as we know it. From a report: Physicists don't know what it is exactly. But they do kn… Read More

By Jim Shelton April 5, 2017 A new study from the international Daya Bay neutrino experiment in China may have found an answer for why there appear to be fewer neutrinos from nucle… Read More

There was some very important news recently about neutrino oscillation, which I wrote about here. Rather than go into the details there, it seemed better to put them in a separate article, a… Read More