Science News
Big Picture: 8 Ways Scientists Look at—But Don't Yet See—Dark Matter
Scientists hunt for the unseen matter that glues together the cosmos. But some wonder whether it even exists. 06.22.2009
The Father of Dark Matter Still Gets No Respect
Little-acknowledged Fritz Zwicky got there first on dark matter, neutron stars, and supernovas. 12.31.2008
#2: The LHC Begins Its Search for the "God Particle"
After many years and billions of dollars, the LHC had its fateful first test run. 12.22.2008
20 Best Brains Under 40
Young innovators are changing everything from theoretical mathematics to cancer therapy. 11.20.2008
Science's Alternative to an Intelligent Creator: the Multiverse Theory
Our universe is perfectly tailored for life. That may be the work of God or the result of our universe being one of many. 11.10.2008
Gravity Is So Last Year
A new book seeks to reinvent Einstein's greatest gift to the world. 10.24.2008
What Happens When a Galaxy Eats Its Neighbor?
New images show that two rivers of stars—and possibly dark matter—are all that remain of one dwarf galaxy. 09.14.2008
Nevermind The Black Hole Hoopla: Here's How the LHC Could Blow Up the World (of Physics)
The collider might find extra dimensions, dark matter, some unknown unknown, and—just maybe—nothing at all. 09.10.2008
An Essential, Concise History of the LHC, 2002–2008
DISCOVER's been all over the Large Hadron Collider since it was just a big hole in the ground. 09.10.2008
The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
A new book explores what we still don't know about science. 08.20.2008
Nothingness of Space Could Illuminate the Theory of Everything
Could the vacuum contain dark energy, gravity particles, and frictionless gears? 07.18.2008
Movie Camera to the Stars
The Earth's fastest telescope aims to make the best sky map ever created. 05.13.2008
Battleground Galactica
New tools and techniques reveal space oddities that eclipse everything we've seen. 05.07.2008
Has the Einstein Revolution Gone Too Far?
Einstein ended science's devotion to experience; it may now be time to come back. 04.01.2008
3 Theories That Might Blow Up the Big Bang
Time may not have a beginning—and it might not exist at all. 03.25.2008
Einstein Didn't Grok His Own Revolution
He thought black holes and quantum mechanics were too weird to be true. 03.10.2008
Could the Next Einstein Be a Surfer Dude?
Six iconoclasts who could revolutionize physics—again. 02.26.2008
A (Dark) Matter of Time
Physicists get creative in their search for dark matter particles 12.12.2007
7. Dark Matters
Astronomers unveil a new map of the mysterious invisible stuff that makes up 90 percent of the universe. 12.12.2007
The Man Who Imagined Wormholes and Schooled Hawking
Kip Thorne revolutionized physics, fixed up Contact, and straddled the Cold War divide. 11.09.2007
Interview: Janna Levin
The physicist talks about her work on the creation of the universe, her award-winning fiction, and being on The Colbert Report. 07.17.2007
Mining for Dark Matter
Seeking the universe’s missing ingredient inside a Minnesota mountain 05.15.2007
The Birth of Dark Energy
A dark force that is pulling the cosmos apart 04.16.2007
Dark Matter Made Visible
There's far more to the universe than meets the eye. 11.13.2006
The Einstein Dilemma
Mordehai Milgrom's new physics could overthrow Newton and Einstein--and tear up our whole picture of how the universe is put together. 08.01.2006
Those Dark Questions
A maverick who unmasked Sherlock Holmes and calculated the time of Jesus' crucifixion is stirring things up again. 05.28.2006
Sky Lights
Missing: Half a universe. Last seen: 13.7 billion years ago 10.24.2005
Darkness Demystified
10.01.2004
Sky Lights
Most of the cosmos cannot be seen, but its influence is visible everywhere you look 10.01.2004
Physics Tackles the Great Questions
08.02.2004
Nailing Down Gravity
New ideas about the most mysterious power in the universe 10.01.2003
Astronomers Search for Dimension X
02.01.2003
A Report from the Dark Side
08.01.2002
X-Ray Eye on Dark Matter
12.01.2001
Very Dark Energy
Why is the universe expanding faster and faster? The answer may be a form of energy we almost can't imagine 03.01.2001
Works in Progress
Astronomers close in on a dark secret of the cosmos 08.01.2000
Mapping Dark Matter
06.01.1997
The Antimatter Mission
A few curious physicists think it's time to find some antimatter stars in antimatter galaxies. 04.01.1996
The Sound Laser
Lasers amplify light, masers amplify microwaves, and now, from France, comes the saser: a supercool glass rod that amplifies sound. 07.01.1994
Particle Hunters
Dark is unseeable almost by definition, but that doesn't stop two physicists from setting sophisticated traps to pin the ghostly stuff down. The catch is, they're stalking different particles. 12.01.1992
