The doctoral thesis of Sophia Hollick, Ph.D. '25, a recent graduate of Yale's Wright Lab in professor Reina Maruyama's group, has significantly contributed to answering a decades-long question in her ...

The Axion Longitudinal Plasma Haloscope (ALPHA) experiment reached a milestone on February 24 with the successful installation of a Bluefors helium dilution fridge at the site of the experiment in ...

Dark matter appears to hold galaxies together, yet it has never shown itself directly. A new theory suggests the missing ...

Two experiments designed to detect signals directly found no evidence for the signal reported by an earlier experiment.

Do you know which are the most abundant particles in the universe? It is neutrinos — small, chargeless, and nearly massless subatomic particles that either don't interact with matter at all or ...

Researchers in the U.S. have carried out the most stringent tests to date of the idea that an ultraviolet glow in the ...

New results from the world's most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe's invisible mass. Figuring out ...

(AP) Nearly a mile underground in an abandoned gold mine, one of the most important quests in physics has come up empty-handed in the search for the elusive substance known as dark matter, scientists ...