A new tool, the Molecular Community Network (MCN), has been developed to identify unknown molecules in the
Researchers from HKU and BNU used wave simulations to test the effects of ultralight dark matter on gravitationally lensed images. The simulations reproduced observed image positions more closely than common models, suggesting gravitationally lensed systems could be used to test ultralight-dark-matter models.
Scientists have created the first global atlas of single-cell microbes living in the aphotic ocean, revealing unexpected functions and capabilities among deep-sea microorganisms. The new database, GORG-Dark, contains over 9,600 genomes from individual microbial cells collected across a broad range of depths and locations.
Researchers identified three unconventional quantum materials that can amplify tiny dark matter signals, outperforming existing detectors. These materials, including titanium diselenide, could detect light dark matter particles with unprecedented sensitivity, potentially unlocking a new frontier in dark matter research.
Researchers at the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment have recorded a single particle interaction that is difficult to explain with known background signals from normal matter. This finding, although not yet conclusive, is the most compelling hint of dark matter reported by the experiment to date.
A new study casts doubt on a leading theory linking dark matter and stellar streams, revealing that the host galaxy itself plays a significant role in shaping these streams. The simulations show that the structure of the galaxy causes irregularities in the streams, which could be mistaken for dark matter's gravitational tug.
The Roman Space Telescope will discover new exoplanets using the Coronagraph Instrument, which combines coronagraphs and adaptive optics for improved contrast ratios. The telescope will also investigate the history of the universe and the contributions of dark matter and dark energy.
Researchers found that healthier superficial white matter is associated with stronger language skills, and that gray matter atrophy measures remain the strongest predictors of cognition. However, the relationship between gray matter and cognitive performance depends on superficial white matter health.
The CosmoCube satellite will use the far side of the Moon as a 'shield' to block out Earth's noise and listen for the 21-centimetre line signal from hydrogen atoms in the early universe. This signal is extremely difficult to detect with Earth-based telescopes due to interference, but the Moon provides a natural shield.
Astronomers have discovered the first globular cluster stellar stream outside the Milky Way, providing a powerful tool for studying dark matter. The study uses the stream's shape to reconstruct the galaxy's gravitational field and infer how dark matter shaped the stars' orbits.
Researchers have discovered a globular cluster stellar stream in another galaxy, offering new insights into the nature of dark matter. The study demonstrates that these streams can be used to measure dark matter content beyond our own galaxy, opening doors to a broader understanding of its behavior.
Researchers at Kyoto University used the Earth's magnetic field to search for axions and dark photons, two leading candidates for dark matter. The team set new limits on axion mass, rivaling previous constraints from astrophysical observations, and detected potential signals from dark photons.
Researchers found that microbial carbon fixation persists beneath the ice of Qinghai Lake, the largest saline lake in China, despite low temperatures and limited light. Dark-dependent carbon fixation was significantly greater than light-dependent fixation, suggesting a major winter carbon assimilation pathway in this saline lake.
A new experiment by PSI researchers eliminates the possibility of transformation into mirror particles, ruling out a mirror world. This finding is crucial for particle physics, as it restricts speculations and encourages exploration of new avenues.
Researchers from McGill and MIT used fast radio bursts and galaxy locations to map the distribution of missing matter, finding it surrounds galaxies and extends four million light-years from them. The discovery supports the idea that black hole jets and other energetic processes fling matter outside galaxies.
Researchers reveal that missing ordinary matter exists in diffuse clouds surrounding galaxy groups, extending beyond predicted distances. The findings suggest stronger and more violent star activity and black hole jets, pushing matter to larger scales.
Rice University researchers propose a new detector design that relies on semiconductor materials to search for axions, hypothetical particles believed to make up dark matter. The proposed detector aims to convert axions into photons, enhancing the photon signal to detect dark matter more easily.
Researchers studied dark matter's potential additional attractive force and found it suppresses structure growth, contrary to expectations. The extra clustering effect is counterbalanced by a decrease in dark matter particles' mass over time, reducing the overall impact on cosmic microwave background observations.
Researchers found that the new galaxy has the mass of 100 million suns and no dark matter, suggesting it formed through a violent event without dark matter 'halos'. This discovery provides strong evidence for an extreme process of galaxy formation and offers insight into the nature of dark matter.
A UK collaboration has demonstrated a key principle behind next-generation quantum detectors can work under realistic conditions. By comparing two long-baseline atom interferometers, researchers effectively cancelled experimental noise, opening the door to searches for gravitational waves and signatures of exotic forms of dark matter.
A new machine-learning method incorporating photon energies debunks the Galactic Center Excess, a faint gamma-ray glow around the Milky Way's center. The study finds that dark matter cannot be ruled out as an explanation for the signal.
A new study reveals that dark brown carbon from wildfires has a powerful warming effect on the global climate, potentially exceeding that of black carbon. The research found that this 'dark brown carbon' absorbs light well into the visible spectrum, amplifying regional and global warming.
Researchers at MIT and Europe create model predicting gravitational wave patterns from black holes in dark matter environments, detecting possible imprints on LVK data. The study offers a new way to screen gravitational-wave signals for hints of dark matter.
Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have made new constraints on dark matter particles using precision measurements of barium monofluoride molecules. The study found bounds on hypothetical Z' bosons that mediate electron-nucleus interactions, potentially shedding light on dark matter.
A Tokyo Metropolitan University scientist has proposed using standard synchrotron facilities to study dark photons, a key step in the hunt for dark matter. The method uses radiation safety monitoring data to estimate limits on dark photon properties.
Researchers discovered that small lesions in white matter can trigger a response in connected grey matter, leading to neuronal activity fall, microglia activation, and synapse loss. However, this response is part of the repair process, essential for brain regeneration.
A team of undergraduate students built a cavity detector to search for axions and set new experimental limits on their properties. The result was achieved with relatively limited resources, showcasing the potential for small-scale experiments in precision cosmology.
New research suggests that relic black holes from before the big bang could help explain dark matter and several long-standing mysteries in cosmology. These primordial objects may have survived into the present day as 'cosmic fossils,' potentially influencing galaxy structure billions of years later.
Researchers identified a potential connection between photosynthetic strategy and dark inhibition levels, with C3 and CAM plants showing variable and elevated levels, respectively. The study aims to inform future efforts to engineer more efficient photosynthesis in crops.
A study led by University of California, Riverside graduate student Yash Aggarwal suggests that dark matter decays could have seeded the direct collapse of galaxies into giant black holes. The research found that a window of dark matter masses between 24 and 27 electronvolts could produce conditions for black hole formation.
An international team of researchers found that torsion-balance experiments can double as detectors for very light dark matter, with the strongest direct detection limits to date on interactions between dark matter and nucleons in the mass range from about 0.01 to 1 eV.
A study suggests that self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) can explain unusual gravitational effects observed in various astrophysical environments. Dense clumps of SIDM can account for high-density structures in the universe, providing a promising candidate for explaining small-scale cosmic structure.
Researchers suggest that dark matter may consist of multiple particles, whose behavior varies depending on the cosmic environment. This could explain why a signal observed at the center of our galaxy is not seen in dwarf galaxies.
Gravitational waves may have contributed to dark matter formation through stochastic gravitational waves during the early universe's formation. This new mechanism could lead to mass-free or nearly mass-free fermions that would acquire mass and form dark matter particles.
A recent FAU study found that individuals with prior criminal behavior, low self-control, and favorable attitudes toward deviance are more likely to access the dark web. The research highlights the importance of understanding who accesses this platform and why, particularly for those intending to engage in illicit activities.
Tova Holmes and Larry Lee will work on the CMS upgrade and search for new particles at Fermilab, while also promoting the laboratory's Distinguished Researcher program. They aim to strengthen connections between the university and the national lab, bringing students and postdocs to the lab for hands-on learning opportunities.
A University of Missouri study reveals that private dark pools attract inexperienced investors and allow companies to delay sharing bad news, increasing the likelihood of sudden stock price crashes. Dark pools also enable accounting manipulation by allowing managers to hide bad news through unusual accounting adjustments.
A new study proposes a two-component self-interacting dark matter model that naturally reproduces observational results for dwarf galaxies and strong gravitational lensing. The model predicts mass segregation, where heavier particles sink towards galaxy centers and lighter particles diffuse outward.
Researchers created a distributed nuclear-spin-based quantum sensor network to experimentally exceed astrophysical constraints on dark matter associated with axion topological defects. The study set the most stringent constraints on axion-nucleon coupling across an axion mass range, opening up new possibilities for probing unexplored p...
Researchers propose an alternative explanation for the galactic centre: an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting gravitational influence. The model also explains the galaxy's large-scale rotation and predicts a unique cosmic structure.
Researchers found 'dark energy' in protein structures, indicating energetic frustration between form and function. This 'dark energy' varies by site, revealing the cost of specific functions like binding.
Researchers created the highest resolution map of dark matter, showing its interaction with normal matter through gravity. The new data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirms previous research and provides new details about dark matter's influence on the Universe.
Researchers challenge a decades-old dark matter theory, suggesting it could have been 'incredibly hot' when first born. The study opens up new possibilities for dark matter and its interactions with other matter, providing clues about the origins of our Universe.
A recent study suggests that dark stars could provide solutions to three pressing puzzles of the high-redshift universe: blue monster galaxies, overmassive black hole galaxies, and little red dots. Dark stars form in dark matter-rich environments and can grow to become supermassive, complementing standard models of galaxy formation.
Researchers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos interact, offering a rare glimpse into the universe's darkest regions. The study casts doubt on the long-standing cosmological model, suggesting interactions between dark matter and neutrinos could explain a discrepancy in cosmic structure formation.
Researchers at Texas A&M University are building highly sensitive detectors to explore dark matter and energy. The team's work builds on previous breakthroughs in detecting low-mass particles, and they aim to find ways to amplify signals that were previously buried in noise.
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have solved a long-standing problem in particle physics, using fusion reactors to produce subatomic particles called axions. This breakthrough has implications for understanding dark matter, which is thought to make up most of the universe's mass.
Researchers at the University of Amsterdam developed a new model to track dark matter's effect on black holes' gravitational waves. The study focuses on extreme mass-ratio inspirals, where a smaller object orbits a massive black hole, emitting gravitational waves that can reveal dark matter's distribution around black holes.
Astrophysicists from UChicago analyzed galaxy shapes and distances to independently examine inconsistencies in the LCDM model. The team's findings support previous weak lensing measurements, indicating consistent growth of structure in the universe.
A new FAU study reveals significant mental health differences between dark web users and surface web users, with dark web users reporting substantially higher levels of depressive symptoms and paranoid thoughts. The study also found substantial differences in suicidal thoughts, non-suicidal self-injury, and digital self-harm.
Researchers believe they have finally detected gamma rays predicted by the annihilation of theoretical dark matter particles. The observed energy spectrum matches the emission predicted from weakly interacting massive particles, with a mass approximately 500 times that of a proton.
A research team at CUNY and UT Austin discovered a way to control dark excitons, highly promising for quantum information and advanced photonic applications. They amplified light emission by 300,000 times, making them visible and controllable.
A new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests that the universe's expansion may have started to slow rather than accelerate at an ever-increasing rate. The findings cast doubt on the long-standing theory of dark energy, which is believed to be driving distant galaxies away increasingly faster.
A UNIGE-led team found that dark matter behaves similarly to ordinary matter on a cosmological scale, following Euler's equations. However, the possibility of an unknown interaction or fifth force remains open.
A recent study has found an association between gum disease and changes in the brain's white matter, which can affect memory, thinking, balance, and coordination. Adults with gum disease had more white matter hyperintensities, a type of damage that can increase stroke risk.
Japanese physicists have shown that knots can arise in a realistic particle physics framework, potentially explaining the origin of the universe's matter surplus. By combining two long-studied extensions of the Standard Model, the team found a stable knot configuration that could have formed and dominated in the early universe.
Researchers revive dark matter as a serious contender for explaining the Milky Way's central glow, proposing a more complex and nonspherical dark matter structure. Advanced simulations reveal that dark matter may still be the best explanation for the excess of high-energy radiation observed by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
Researchers at Tohoku University propose a way to detect dark matter using highly sensitive quantum devices connected in network structures. This approach outperforms traditional methods and has potential applications beyond dark matter searches.
A mysterious glow in the Milky Way could be a clue to dark matter's existence. Researchers used supercomputers to simulate dark matter locations and found matches with actual gamma ray maps.
Researchers at the University of York suggest Dark Matter could impart a subtle red or blue tint to light as it passes through regions with Dark Matter presence. Detecting such effects could open up a new way to study invisible mass in the cosmos.