Statistical mechanics provides a fundamental framework for understanding how collective phenomena in many-body systems give rise to macroscopic changes in state, known as phase transitions. Research ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it's real because its mass ...

Analysis of the Bullet Cluster, which was formed after two large clusters of galaxies collided, supports the existence of dark matter. X-ray: NASA / CXC / CfA / M. Markevitch et al.; Optical: NASA / ...

Dark matter is a mysterious type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, yet is predicted to account for most of the universe's mass. While physicists have gathered extensive indirect ...

Japanese researchers are pushing quantum technology to the point where it can register unimaginably small disturbances, edging closer to instruments that could follow the subtle fingerprints of dark ...

At the center of our galaxy, there’s a mysterious, diffuse glow given off by gamma rays — powerful radiation usually emitted by high-energy objects such as rapidly rotating or exploding stars. NASA’s ...