Read article 'Testing WIMPs to the limit'
Dark matter is one of the greatest mysteries of our cosmos. More than 80 years after its postulation in modern form by the Swiss–American astronomer Fritz Zwicky, the existence of a new unseen form ...
Read article 'Linking waves to particles'
Gravitational waves could also shed light on the microscopic world.
Read article 'What is AMS telling us?'
The latest cosmic-ray data from AMS have implications for particle-physics models of dark matter and other novel phenomena, says John Ellis.
Read article 'LUX-ZEPLIN passes approval milestone'
A next-generation dark-matter detector in the US called LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), which will be at least 100 times more sensitive than its predecessor, is on schedule to begin its deep-underground hunt for WIM...
Read article 'Probing dark matter with CMS'
Understanding the nature of dark matter (DM) is the focus of extensive research at collider- and astrophysics-based experiments. The most well-known signature for DM production at the LHC is the so-ca...
Read article 'LUX draws a blank on dark matter'
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment located at Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota, US, has released its latest results in the search for dark matter. Following the c...
Read article 'Galactic map sheds light on dark energy'
The map shows galaxies being pulled towards each other by dark matter, while on much larger scales it reveals the effect of dark energy ripping the universe apart.
Read article 'ATLAS explores the dark side of matter'
Astrophysics and cosmology have established that about 80% of the mass in the universe consists of dark matter. Dark matter and normal matter interact gravitationally, and they may also interact weakl...
Read article 'Gamma-ray excess is not from dark matter'
Two research teams found that the gamma rays of the excess emission at the galactic centre are not distributed as expected from dark matter.
Read article 'DAMPE joins the search for dark matter in space'
On 17Â December, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) successfully launched the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, markin...
