Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping to pave a path for the eventual discovery of dark matter. With new approaches to measurement in the quantum realm, ...

Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in science. Astronomers believe it makes up most of the matter in the universe, ...

Levitating sensors are moving from science-fiction imagery to practical laboratory tools, promising a new generation of instruments that can feel forces so faint they border on the gravitational pull ...

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators developed the first intercity nuclear-spin-based quantum sensor ...

(Top left) Composition of the universe, showing that dark matter accounts for about 27%. (Top right) Proposed quantum sensor network, where superconducting qubits are connected in different graph ...

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...

In a first-of-its-kind test, scientists used a levitated magnet to search for dark matter, the unidentified substance believed to be present throughout the cosmos. If dark matter is made up of ...

Dark matter makes up over 25% of the universe’s mass, holds galaxies together, and is essential to our understanding of cosmic structure. It doesn’t interact with light or other electromagnetic ...

Physicists are eyeing charged gravitinos—ultra-heavy, stable particles from supergravity theory—as possible Dark Matter candidates. Unlike axions or WIMPs, these particles carry electric charge but ...

For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century. It outweighs everything we see by a factor of five, yet it slips past every detector ...