How researchers propose to search for dark matter. The torsion balance is a geometrically asymmetric structure with a hollow “spherical shell” on the left and a “solid sphere” on the right. The impact ...

Study authors Hunter Schweiger (left) and Ash Robbins. Imagine balancing a ruler vertically in the palm of your hand: you have to constantly pay attention to the angle of the ruler and make many small ...

A tabletop instrument sensitive enough to measure a twist smaller than a trillionth of a degree has just become the world’s most powerful direct probe of ultralight dark matter. In a study released in ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz have trained lab-grown clusters of mouse brain cells to balance a virtual pole on a moving cart, marking what the team calls the first ...

Dark matter is believed to make up a large fraction of the matter in the universe, yet its true nature remains unknown. Most past experiments have focused on heavier dark matter candidates, while much ...