What was once the leading explanation for dark matter may have simply been underestimating the mass of the particles that ...

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In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

In spaces smaller than a wavelength of light, electric currents jump from point to point and magnetic fields corkscrew through atomic lattices in ways that defy intuition. Scientists have only ever ...

Using Nasa ’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Professor Tomonori Totani from the Department of Astronomy at the University ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

The new study led by Prof Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo analysed Fermi telescope observations of the Milky Way's ...

Not much has been uncovered about dark matter, the mysterious, invisible element that comprises around 25 per cent of the cosmos and around 85 per cent of the mass of the universe. But now a researche ...

Engineers in Switzerland have built light-emitting diodes so small that hundreds could line up across the width of a single ...

For decades, scientists have speculated about the existence of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the ...

It is thought that the earliest spark of a lightning bolt could arise directly from charged ice crystals. Yet the exact ...

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may have detected the first direct evidence for dark matter, according to new research ...