Part of science is learning how to ask ... Compounds always have the same ratio of elements. For example, Pyrite will always exist as one Fe atom for every two S atoms. Pure substances, which are one ...

These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the ...

Scientists have officially spotted characteristics of superfluidity (a quantum fluid with zero viscosity) inside a ...

Yale physicist Eduardo H. da Silva Neto led an experiment that supports the existence of a new type of superconductor.

It was the Greeks who first suggested that matter was made ... started to look more like science as we know it today. Progress was relatively slow at first. For example, it took until the 16th ...

Dark matter could also explain certain optical illusions that astronomers see in the deep universe. For example, pictures of galaxies that include strange rings and arcs of light could be ...

This is the most detailed map of of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe ... In the history of cosmology there are examples where problems went away, but also examples when the thinking ...

Data from the OSIRIS-REx mission to Bennu place a ceiling on the strength of a hypothetical fifth force that could explain dark matter’s origins.

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Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to reveal subtle details about the shapes of atomic nuclei. The method is ...