Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 1999, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez shot one of the ...

Evil. Death. Danger. For centuries, the dark has carried slander: sinister figures, black cats slipping across the path, ghost stories, and hellscapes. But it wasn’t always so. For most of history, ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, interacting very weakly with ordinary matter. These characteristics make it impossible to detect using ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is estimated to account for most of the universe's mass. Over the past decades, many physicists worldwide have ...

On a clear night far from city lights, the Milky Way stretches overhead as a pale band, yet most of the sky between those stars looks almost perfectly black. That darkness is not just a backdrop for ...

Scientists at OIST have, for the first time, directly tracked the elusive “dark excitons” inside atomically thin materials. These quantum particles could revolutionize information technology, as they ...