Over the past decades, many research teams worldwide have been trying to detect dark matter, an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, using a variety of highly sensitive ...

Photon–atom interactions in nanophotonic systems exploit the tight confinement of light in subwavelength structures to enhance and precisely engineer light–matter coupling at the single-quantum level.

A new study has revealed a novel effect caused by dark photons—hypothetical particles thought to make up a portion of the universe's elusive dark matter. This discovery, made within the framework of ...

Researchers at Rice University, Houston, Texas, have developed a new way to control light interactions using a specially engineered structure called a 3D photonic-crystal cavity. Their work, published ...

The study used molecular physics to map unseen interactions, narrowing the search for dark matter.

New detection method: Researchers created a model to predict how dark matter would alter gravitational waves from black hole mergers. Intriguing signal found: Analysis of 28 clear events showed one, ...