BYLINE: Megan Watzke Newswise — Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the Universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand individual galaxies and huge reservoirs of…
Category: Physics
LZ Dark Matter Experiment Sets a World’s Best and Spots Neutrinos From the Sun’s Core
Newswise — There’s more to the universe than meets the eye. Dark matter, the invisible substance that accounts for 85 percent of the mass in the universe, is hiding all…
LZ Sets a World’s Best in the Hunt for Galactic Dark Matter
BYLINE: Lauren Biron Newswise — There’s more to the universe than meets the eye. Dark matter, the invisible substance that accounts for 85 percent of the mass in the universe,…
Two Beams, One Detector, Most Precise Search for ‘Sterile’ Neutrinos
Newswise — In the search for evidence of a ghostly particle called the “sterile” neutrino, the latest results from the MicroBooNE detector at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fermi National…
Can Quantum Computers Help US Learn About the Inside a Neutron Star?
Newswise — A new paper in Nature Communications could put scientists on the path to understanding one of the wildest, hottest, and most densely packed places in the universe: a…
Argonne Postdoctoral Researcher Zhiwan Xu Receives Prestigious 2025 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics
Newswise — Zhiwan Xu, a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne, was honored with the award for her innovative work on quantum chromodynamics and the quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter that…
Watching Gold Change Structure at Extreme Pressures
Newswise — The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth’s atmosphere. As a result of that intense pressure, materials can adopt unexpected structures…
Here’s how Rudolph’s light-up nose might be possible
This time of year, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is a nearly inescapable earworm. Rudolph, the old song goes, is bullied for having a nose so bright it glows (like a…
