Physics
Meet the South Pole’s Dark Matter Detective
Reina Maruyama wasn’t expecting her particle detector to work buried deep in ice. She was wrong.
The Physicist Who Denies that Dark Matter Exists
Maybe Newtonian physics doesn't need dark matter to work, but Mordehai Milgrom instead.
Dark Matter Is in Our DNA
The binary pairing of Darkness and Light is so basic to human culture, no other name for the unseen stuff could do.
If You Can’t Find Dark Matter, Look First for a Dark Force
Physicists are rethinking how to use the Large Hadron Collider to search for dark matter.
Maybe Dark Matter Is All Just a Big Mistake
what is dark matter. Mystery two: how to unify physics. Are they the same mystery?
Dark Matter May Show Quantum Effects on a Galactic Scale
This weird type of dark matter would also puff up galaxies and make stars age prematurely.
What Quantum Gravity Needs Is More Experiments
Math won’t solve quantum gravity. Experimentation will.
The Multiverse Is an Ancient Idea
Turns out, we've been debating the notion of infinite worlds for millennia.
