Physicists are eyeing charged gravitinos—ultra-heavy, stable particles from supergravity theory—as possible Dark Matter ...

Members of the STAR collaboration, a group of physicists collecting and analyzing data from particle collisions at the ...

Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

For years, physicists have been baffled by the discovery of mysterious “ghost particles”. But thanks to a new liquid dome in a futuristic underground observatory located in the hills of China, ...

Physicists have unveiled a new superconducting detector sensitive enough to hunt dark matter particles smaller than electrons. By capturing faint photon signals, the device pushes the search into ...

For years, physicists have been baffled by the discovery of mysterious “ghost particles”. The scientific name for them is “neutrinos”, which are neutral sub-atomic particles with no electric charge.

A researcher, Heikki Mäntysaari from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), has been part of an international research group ...

Particles similar to axions, the leading candidate for dark matter that has long eluded detection, may have already been ...

An analysis of the afterglow of the big bang sheds light on how black holes distribute mass in the universe, and why some ...

Three separate GCSEs in chemistry, physics and biology will remain among the options Secondary school pupils in Wales will continue to be able to take three separate GCSEs in chemistry, physics and ...