Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Do you know which are the most abundant particles in the universe? It is neutrinos — small, chargeless, and nearly massless ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover is using a new experiment to better understand the history of the Martian atmosphere by analyzing xenon. While NASA’s Curiosity rover concluded its detailed examination of the ...

Dark matter, the mysterious substance that may account for nearly 25 percent of the universe, has so far evaded direct observation. But researchers from UCLA, Columbia University and other ...

Prof. Marrodán Undagoitia is a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany. Her research area is that of astroparticle physics, where she works on ...

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), a next-generation dark matter detector, will replace the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment. The approval puts LZ on track to begin its deep-underground hunt for theoretical ...

Dark matter is claimed to make up over 80% of all matter in the universe, but scientists have never seen it. We only assume it exists because, without it, the behavior of stars, planets and galaxies ...

Buried deep underground in Black Hills, S.D. lies a cavern with a titanium tank the size of a phonebooth. Over the next year, researchers hope this vessel will detect dark matter, the presence of ...

Australian researchers have played a central role in a landmark result from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment in South Dakota—the world's most sensitive dark matter detector. Today, scientists working on ...

The XENON experiment underground. Water tank (left) and three-story service building (right). Note humans at bottom right for scale. Photo: The XENON Experiment The search for dark matter has taken ...

The liquid-fueled molten salt reactors such as the MSRE and the TMSR-LF have distinguishing dynamic features compared with solid-fueled reactors, such that conventional system analysis codes are not ...