For decades, scientists have known that ordinary matter — everything made of atoms — accounts for just 15% of the universe’s ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

Republican board members criticized the proposed revisions for depicting the downsides of fossil fuels but not of solar or ...

A long-elusive, hypothetical subatomic particle called the axion can be simulated and potentially detected in a type of thin material.

"The new model can account for both structure formation and stability, and the key observational properties of the expansion of the universe at large." ...

A new study has shed light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian rivers use to ...

The Case of the Missing Matter "We robustly show that the gas is much more extended than the dark matter" relative to ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, ...

For 100 years, quantum theory has painted the subatomic world as strange beyond words. But bold new interpretations and experiments may help us to finally grasp its true meaning ...

Superpositions of quantum states known as Schrödinger cat states can be created in “hot” environments with temperatures up to 1.8 K, say researchers in Austria and Spain. By reducing the restrictions ...

Apr. 10, 2025 — When materials are created on a nanometer scale -- just a handful of atoms thick -- even the thermal energy present at room temperature can cause structural ripples. How these ...