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Ultracold atoms have successfully mimicked a fundamental quantum effect normally found in electronic circuits.

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A simple explanation of dark matter and antimatter, how they differ, how scientists study them, and why both are important to understanding the universe.

What is dark matter, and can we detect it? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review D hopes to address as a team of international researchers investigated a new method for detecting ...

Normal matter – which makes up everything we see and touch – isn’t the only type of matter present in the universe.

The mysterious dark matter that makes up most of the matter in the universe could be composed, in part, of invisible and nearly intangible counterparts of atoms, protons and electrons, researchers say ...

A newly-designed atomic clock uses entangled atoms to keep time even more precisely than its state-of-the-art counterparts. The design could help scientists detect dark matter and study gravity's ...