Physics
Deathblow Dealt to Dark Matter Disks
New data tracking the movements of millions of Milky Way stars have effectively ruled out the presence of a “dark disk” that could have offered important clues to the mystery of dark matter.
LIGO Architects Win Nobel Prize in Physics
The American physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish were honored for dreaming up and realizing the experiment that confirmed the existence of gravitational waves.
The Universe Began With a Big Melt, Not a Big Bang
The cosmological constant and the creation of the universe.
Will We Ever Know What Dark Matter Is?
The search for the elusive material is reaching the end of its tether.
