New research puts forward compelling new evidence that dark matter interacts with cosmic "ghost particles" called neutrinos.

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Mohammad Hafezi, a Joint Quantum Institute Fellow, and his colleagues investigated how changing the ratio of fermionic to ...

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Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a ...

In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She calculated that collisions involving three different types of subatomic ...

The measuring tip of an atomic force microscope with a specially designed holder in which a spherical particle is “trapped”. Lacquers, paint, concrete—and even ketchup or orange juice: Suspensions are ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...