LIVERMORE, Calif. – Take a gold sample the size of the head of a push pin, shoot a laser through it, and suddenly more than 100 billion particles of anti-matter appear. The anti-matter, also known as ...
Students will learn how to categorize matter as either pure substances or mixtures. Students will apply tests, based on physical properties of matter samples, to determine whether a mixture is ...
When Michelle Galloway drives to work, she takes a tunnel into a mountain. Deep inside, at the entrance to the facility, guards ask her for a secret password. “Then, this James Bond-type door opens in ...
As a central hub for scientific exploration, CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is dedicated to probing the enigmatic particles that could potentially elucidate the mystery of dark ...
A new theoretical study proposes a radical idea in the search for dark matter—using the surface of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon, as a natural detector for massive dark matter particles. The ...
Some kind of invisible material is out there affecting the motions of stars and galaxies, but thus far, no one has been able to directly detect the substance—called dark matter—itself. But some are ...