A new spectroscopy method is bringing researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) closer to understanding – and artificially replicating – the solar water-splitting reactio...
Gorgosaurus is shown using its specialized teeth for feeding on a young Corythosaurus in Alberta, 75 million years ago. Credit: Danielle Dufault The Tyrannosaurus rex and its fellow...
Size, Mass and Orbit: With a mean radius of 24,622 ± 19 km, Neptune is the fourth largest planet in the Solar System and four times as large as Earth. Neptune’s irregular moons cons...
The paper also highlights how evolutionary history informs an understanding of the impact of human activities on marine species today. For example, modern dolphins and extinct marine...
The teeth of most herbivorous mammals self wear with use to create complex file surfaces for mincing plants. It’s just been assumed that dinosaurs didn’t do things like mammals, but ...
The impact decimated slow-growing evergreens and made way for fast-growing, deciduous plants, according to a study applying biomechanical analyses to fossilized leaves The meteorite...
The goal of most direct-detection dark-matter experiments is to observe a weakly interacting massive dark-matter particle (WIMP) as it scatters off the nucleus of an atom. If dark ma...
Just this month, Planck released new maps of the cosmic microwave background supporting the theory of cosmic inflation, which posits that the universe underwent a monumental expansio...
Suppose that you tossed a ball into the air, and instead of being attracted back to the ground, the ball was repelled by the Earth and blasted faster and faster into the sky. Scienti...
This news release is available in Japanese. Two new reports advance efforts to identify components of dark matter and energy, which together comprise about 95% of the universe yet le...
But apart from the CoGENT dark-matter experiment in the US, no other dark-matter searches have seen a similar effect. The most recent cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from the ...
These so-called Generation 2 Dark Matter Experiments include the LUX-Zeplin (LZ) experiment, an international collaboration formed in 2012, managed by DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley Nationa...
By carefully re-engineering a detector for heavy dark matter particles, so-called WIMPS, the CRESST collaboration succeeded in improving the detector to measure lightweight dark matt...
The size of this map is about 4 square degrees corresponding to only 2.5% of the full CS82 survey footprint shown in the next figure. Indeed, following Einstein’s theory of gravitati...
New Haven, Conn. – From the physics labs at Yale University to the bottom of a played-out gold mine in South Dakota, a new generation of dark matter experiments is ready to commence....
SuperCDMS has unprecedented sensitivity to the light mass, sometimes called low mass, WIMPS. CDMS and SuperCDMS Soudan also focus on lower mass dark matter. Deep below the ground, to...
DS: We’re actually retrofitting a 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak in Arizona called the Mayall telescope. We’ll observe these galaxies for about 20 minutes, then we will point the tel...
It’s a good thing, then, that engineers know how to make a spaceship’s microprocessors more robust. In the case of Orion, which last December had its first (unmanned) test flight aro...
While it is apparent that the gravitational attraction of invisible dark matter is holding galaxies together, it has proved very difficult to measure the distribution of dark matter ...
With its second year under way, the DES team posts highlights and prepares to release images from its first year On Aug. 15, with its successful first season behind it, the Dark Ene...
Mass map with images of two galaxy clusters and a cosmic void Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey have released the first in a series of dark matter maps of the cosmos. Vikram, Cha...
The standard model of particle physics, which has been very successful in explaining the properties of ordinary matter, can neither explain dark matter’s existence nor its properties...
When these stars died during the first supernova explosions, the heavy elements have been ejected, and stars of the second generation could form. The results therefore strongly sugge...
The discovery experimentally connects the worlds of classical and quantum mechanics and illuminates the mysterious nature of the Mott transition. When they applied a large enough ele...
The two 1.2-gigawatt wind farms, called Dogger Bank Teesside A&B, total almost four times the capacity of the largest operational project. They won development permission from th...