8 September

The new result comes from an experiment called CRESST II, which uses a few dozen supercooled calcium tungstate crystals to hunt for dark matter from deep beneath the Gran Sasso mountain in Italy.

Researchers at the Cresst experiment in Italy say they have spotted 67 events in their detectors that may be caused by dark matter particles called Wimps.

The Tevatron has been the pride of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory for a quarter of a century. But at the end of this month, the Tevatron is shutting down.

Antimatter enthusiasts will love it; dark matter hunters not so much. NASA’s FERMI satellite has confirmed a previous hint that there is more antimatter than expected coming from space. The bad news is that the result almost certainly rules out dark matter as the source.

U.S.-based physicists said on Monday they hope to have enough data by the end of this month to establish if the elusive Higgs boson, a particle thought to have made the universe possible, exists in its long-predicted form.

Branded “temporary” when they were built in 1966 and threatened with demolition more than once during the past 35 years, the dozen portable classroom buildings and office trailers known as “PEP City” are being torn down this week.

The latest results from the Large Hadron Collider serve as a reality check for expectations that radical scientific discoveries are just around the corner.

The mysterious substance known as dark matter may actually be an illusion created by gravitational interactions between short-lived particles of matter and antimatter, a new study says.