Browse Physics

An unusual excess of radio emission from outside the Milky Way may come from dark matter.

The observation of nearby galaxies provides new and stronger limits on dark matter.

A satellite currently hunting for planets around distant stars could potentially spot black holes that some theories take for the missing dark matter.

Theorists uncover universal effects underlying computer simulations of finite volume systems.

A search for evidence of particles predicted by supersymmetry—a favored extension of the standard model—suggests that if the theory is correct, it may be more complicated to discover these particles than previously thought.

The time-dependent solution of one of the most basic models in field theory has applications from nuclear to condensed-matter physics.

Researchers have demonstrated the key piece of equipment needed to produce the intense positron beams required for the next generation of particle accelerators.

Theorists gain insight into mechanisms that enhance the available symmetries of various quantum field theories.

Liquid helium-4 is integral in a source of slow-moving neutrons, with a five-fold increase in yield in density.

When searching for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider, researchers have to keep track of how many places they look.

Researchers predict that Majorana fermions can be found in magnetic field vortices in the bulk of the superconductor ${\text{Cu}}_x{\text{Bi}}_2{\text{Se}}_3$.

The hot, dense particle soup created by colliding lead nuclei breaks up pairs of weakly bound bottom quarks, as expected if the collision creates a plasma of unbound quarks and gluons.

The T2K collaboration in Japan sees strong hints of muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillation.

Precision measurements of the electron magnetic moment in hydrogenlike silicon provide a stringent test of bound-state quantum electrodynamics.

Researchers report a possible difference between muon neutrino and muon antineutrino disappearance, which if confirmed will have serious implications for our current theoretical understanding.

Potential signs of new physics in an earlier particle collision experiment are now being questioned in a report from Fermilab.

Researchers have detected spin flips of a single proton, a first step toward precision measurements of the antiproton’s spin magnetic moment.