Dark matter and dark energy
Everything filed under concepts in our physics coverage, the 36 reports filed on it so far.
Virtual Power Plants Become Core Grid Resource
A 2025 review article details how virtual power plants, aggregating distributed energy resources, are now essential for grid reliability amid rising...
Gravitational Reconnection Discovery Reshapes Energy Transfer Understanding
Physicists have discovered gravitational reconnection, a process where space-time sheets break and reconnect to transfer energy into matter, drawing...
Heavy neutrino's early universe dominance may explain matter surplus
A theoretical study proposes a long-lived heavy neutrino briefly dominated the cosmos after the Big Bang, altering expansion to allow matter to...
Beamstop-free X-ray scattering captures multiscale plasma dynamics
A new X-ray scattering technique has simultaneously measured plasma structures from 10 nanometers to 500 nanometers with sub-picosecond resolution...
Supernova analysis suggests dark energy may vary over time
A unified analysis of 2,884 Type Ia supernovae reveals evidence that dark energy may not be constant, challenging a core assumption of the standard...
Positron trapped for months enables magnetic moment test
Physicists at Northwestern University have trapped a single positron for months in a cryogenic vacuum, enabling unprecedented precision measurements...
Internal conversion resolves silicon carbide divacancy lifetime discrepancy
A new computational framework from the University of Chicago reveals internal conversion is a major energy loss pathway in silicon carbide spin...
IceCube Detects High-Energy Neutrinos from Orion Galaxy
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has detected high-energy neutrinos from a distant galaxy in the constellation Orion, validating its pioneering...
LUX-ZEPLIN detector records potential dark matter event
A single high-energy event at the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector has physicists exploring non-standard particle models.
Spinon to Triplon Transition Observed in Frustrated Quantum Magnet
Neutron spectroscopy reveals a quasiparticle energy crossover from deconfined spinons to bound triplons in the spin-Peierls material CuGeO3.
Global Survey Finds No Consensus on Universe's Biggest Questions
A worldwide survey of physicists reveals deep divisions on dark matter, quantum gravity, and cosmology, with only two concepts winning majority...
Ultra-High-Energy Photon Defies Physics to Reach Earth
A 300 TeV photon from a distant gamma-ray burst survived a 2-billion-light-year journey that should have destroyed it.
Quantum computers could hunt dark matter at LHC
A particle physicist is developing quantum algorithms to search for anomalies in data from the upgraded Large Hadron Collider.
UrQMD Model Reveals Neutron Origin of Stopped Protons
A microscopic transport model study shows many protons stopped at mid-rapidity in low-energy heavy-ion collisions originate from initial neutrons.
New Experiment Sets Limits on Axion-like Dark Matter
A physics experiment using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance and a SQUID magnetometer has searched for ultralight axion-like dark matter.
Mathematical framework slashes energy of magnetic bit switching
A new optimal control theory framework from the University of Edinburgh designs magnetic pulses to switch digital bits, potentially cutting energy...
Dark Matter Search Probes Xenon Excitation After LZ Event
A new study analyzes the potential for detecting inelastic xenon excitation signals in the LZ dark matter experiment.
LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector reports rare unexplained event
The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment has detected a rare particle interaction that looks unusually difficult to explain as ordinary background noise.
DOE Explains Quantum Computing's Potential
The Department of Energy explains how quantum computers, using qubits, could solve complex problems beyond the reach of current supercomputers.
Physicist Sarah Demers on AI's Role in Particle Physics
Yale physicist Sarah Demers discusses the U.S. Department of Energy's use of AI to optimize the Mu2e experiment.
MIT physicists debunk neutrino laser concept
A new MIT study shows a theoretical proposal for a laser-like neutrino beam is impossible due to the particles' high-energy recoil and quantum nature.
LZ experiment detects potential dark matter
A new analysis of LUX-ZEPLIN experiment data found a single high-energy event that might be the first detection of a WIMP, a leading dark matter...
XENONnT measures 17 keV solar neutrinos
The XENON Collaboration has directly observed low-energy solar neutrinos scattering off electrons for the first time using the XENONnT detector in...
Jefferson Lab to Probe Dark Photons
A simulation study outlines a proposed experiment using a 500 MeV positron beam on a hydrogen target to search for light dark photons in the 7-19 MeV...