Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s oldest light—have developed a new way to reduce uncertainty in how it’s ...
The genomes of phages—viruses that infect bacteria—are largely composed of "dark matter": genes that encode proteins whose functions remain unknown. Less than four years ago, a team led by Prof. Rotem ...
A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.
The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...
This video explores the enigma of dark matter, an elusive substance believed to make up most of the universe's matter. While the universe is populated by visible stars and galaxies, much of its mass ...
A team of astronomers have conducted a study that has lifted the veil on a nearly 100 year mystery that explains an odd dark ...
Forces have mediator particles. Electromagnetism is mediated by the photons, for example. So most of the decay of this excited dark matter particle would be this unknown mediator. The excited state ...
Chinese scientists create clock so precise it could redefine second - Optical clock measures time using light emitted by electrons transitioning between energy levels ...
Quantum materials, astronomy, and life sciences research at UBC got a major boost with the latest round of Canada Foundation ...
New 2026 research links coffee and tea to lower dementia risk, suggests dark matter may interact with neutrinos, and reveals ...
At the centre of our galaxy lies a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* – but one group of researchers is suggesting it may not be a black hole at all. The team says that it, and other black ...
Astronomers have detected a ghostly galaxy that is almost completely made of dark matter. The faint object was revealed by just four globular star clusters hiding in the Perseus cluster.