The simplicity of protons, neutrons, and electrons was gone, replaced by chaos. Physicists worried that they had lost the thread — that nature was far more complicated than they had hoped. But out of ...

More than 700,000 GCSE physics students could be without a specialist teacher, a report has warned. The Institute of Physics (IOP) has called for urgent action to tackle the shortage in physics ...

The universe's matter-antimatter asymmetry, where matter significantly outweighs antimatter despite their theoretically equal creation at the Big Bang, remains a major unsolved problem in physics.

Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current ...

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...

1 East Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. 2 School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. The geometric deformation wave propagates ...

Physicists can map its gravity, tally its cosmic abundance, and observe its fingerprints in the microwave glow of the Big Bang. Yet no one has ever detected a single particle of dark matter in the ...

New dark matter model includes lightweight particles with weak interactio Massive vector boson enables connection between dark and known matter Thermal freeze-out explains how dark matter’s cosmic ...

An artistic illustration of the mechanism proposed by Professor Stefano Profumo where quantum effects near the rapidly expanding cosmic horizon after the Big Bang gravitationally generate dark matter ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in physics: string theory. This rare particle—never seen before and predicted not ...

Scientists are using “trapped ions” in highly precise experiments to search for a new, fifth force of nature that could help explain elusive dark matter. The invisible dark matter is one of the ...