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How Much Should Expectation Drive Science?

Answers to the biggest mysteries may lie well outside traditional paradigms.

March 2, 2017

Dark Matter Could Be a Superfluid Sometimes

Dark matter might be fluid in galaxies but something else on vaster, cosmological scales.

February 28, 2017

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.

February 19, 2017

The Physicist Who Denies that Dark Matter Exists

Maybe Newtonian physics doesn't need dark matter to work, but Mordehai Milgrom instead.

February 15, 2017

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.

February 9, 2017

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.

February 8, 2017

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.

February 7, 2017

Dark Matter Is Our Friend

Without the extra heft of dark matter, you wouldn’t be here.

February 7, 2017

Dark Matter Is Either Like Neptune or Like Vulcan

This isn’t the first time that scientists have wrestled with the unseen.

January 31, 2017

The Multiverse Is an Ancient Idea

Turns out, we've been debating the notion of infinite worlds for millennia.

January 30, 2017

There Is Dust in the Universe, But I Have Never Seen It

A poet finds inspiration in cosmic darkness.

January 24, 2017

Music for the Birth of the Universe

This composer takes inspiration from scientific cosmology and quantum mechanics.

January 24, 2017