Self-Destruction of Dark Matter May Contribute to Cosmic Gamma-Ray Glow
Matching up maps of matter and light from the Dark Energy Survey and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may help astrophysicists understand what causes a faint…
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DarkSide-20k Will Push the Search for WIMP Dark Matter to New Levels
University of Houston scientists are helping to develop a technology that could hold the key to unraveling one of the great mysteries of science: what…
Unusual X-Ray Lines Provide New Clues on the Nature of Dark Matter
Dark matter is increasingly puzzling. Around the world, physicists have been trying for decades to determine the nature of these matter particles, which do not…
Physicists Present a New Theory on the Origin of Dark Matter
Physicists have now come up with a new theory on how dark matter may have been formed, proposing an alternative to the WIMP paradigm. Only…
New Dark Matter Detector Will Be 100 Times More Sensitive to Dark Matter
A team of scientists is building a supersized version of the dark matter detector Lux, called Lux-Zeplin, which will be roughly 100 times more sensitive…
LUX Dark Matter Detector Completes First 90-Days of Operation
With its first 90 days of operation completed, researchers at the Large Underground Xenon experiment are reporting that LUX has demonstrated a sensitivity that is…
Theorists Develop New Algorithm to Help Search for Dark Matter
Theoretical physicists from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology detail a new mathematical description of how dark matter particles behave, which could help…
A Molecular Directional Dark Matter Detector Made From Gold and DNA
Scientists are working on a directional dark matter detector that will use strands of DNA and gold in order to detect the elusive non-baryonic matter….
Dark Matter in Form of WIMPs Hits Humans Once a Minute
New calculations have shown that the average human gets hit by a particle of dark matter about once a minute. Dark matter, which is supposed…