Fusion reactors may not only generate clean energy but also produce axions, particles linked to dark matter, according to a ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

In a rare global collaboration, scientists from Japan and the United States joined forces to explore one of the universe’s deepest mysteries — why anything exists at all. By combining years of data ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This autumn’s claims that neutrinos travelled faster than light – and in the process broke one of the firmest ...

Simply sign up to the Science myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The scientific search to explain the structure of the universe has been given new impetus by the discovery that the ...

Dark matter, as far as scientists can tell, is present all throughout the Milky Way galaxy. The mystery substance appears to give the galaxy more mass than astronomers can observe, meaning it is ...

A professor at the University of Cincinnati and his colleagues have figured out something two of America's most famous ...

One of the elements at the forefront of His Dark Materials is the importance of Dust. As in the novels of the same name by Philip Pullman, the series is set on a parallel Earth to our own that has ...

We think of matter as being made up from three main particles – protons, neutrons and electrons. However the full set of matter particles is the fermions. This has a much greater variety of sub-atomic ...

The Large Hadron Collider has discovered new sub-atomic particles that could help to explain how the centres of atoms are held together. The particles are all different forms of the so-called Omega-c ...