Researchers have developed germanium nanoparticles with improved photoluminescence, making them potentially better materials for solar cells and imaging probes. The research team found that by adding ...

Adding tin to the core of a germanium nanoparticle can help boost its light absorption properties, making such materials more efficient for photovoltaic applications, researchers at the U.S.

Detecting the presence of dark matter in space is rather easy, but that doesn’t tell us what dark matter actually is. Scientists may have had better luck in a Minnesota mine: projects occupying the ...

Physicists thought they had built the detector to rule them all. A mile underground in a former South Dakota gold mine, the Large Underground Xenon detector was the latest, greatest attempt to find ...

A new experiment buried deep underground in a South Dakota mine aims to detect rare particle decays that could explain the mystery of antimatter. Scientists don't know why the universe is made of ...

Though they've been looking for over a year, scientists have found no trace of an elusive interaction among elementary particles called neutrinos. The interaction, in which neutrinos would collide and ...

The electron is one of the fundamental particles in nature we read about in school. Its behavior holds clues to new ways to store digital data. A new study explores alternative materials to improve ...

A new idea for detecting dark matter really sparkles. Diamonds could be used to search for the mysterious substance, a team of scientists suggests. Detectors containing the crystals could spot ...

You and me, we’re matter. Everyone you know is matter. Everything on Earth, spare a few particles, is matter. Most of the things in space are matter. But we don’t have convincing reasons why there ...