The goal: Develop high-tech coatings that make the detector’s mirrors less “noisy”.

Now the startup, Lumeras LLC, has a viable commercial product, and scientists have a new tool for studying the behavior of complex materials.

In its final run, the LUX experiment increased its sensitivity four-fold, but dark matter remains elusive.

The first website to be hosted in the US has grown to be an invaluable hub for open science.

The Standard Model is far more than elementary particles arranged in a table.

Scientists are using plasma to create electronic sensors that will track the health of astronauts.

The White House announced $50 million in funding for ‘Battery500’, a five year effort, as part of a package of initiatives to accelerate adoption...

The mirrors only differ by one atom in flatness, from end to end.

The scientists develop methods to study neutrinos from star explosions and search for unknown particles and forces with possible ties to dark matter.

An interdisciplinary team has developed a way to track how particles charge and discharge at the nanoscale, an advance that will lead to better...

Silicon chips can store data in billionths of a second, but phase-change memory could be 1,000 times faster, while using less energy and requiring...