Dark matter search: Team co-leader Christopher Tunnell is an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University. (Courtesy: Jeff Fitlow/Rice) A tiny neodymium particle suspended inside a ...

In a chilled lab where temperatures drop close to absolute zero, a speck of magnet hovers in place. This tiny magnet, levitating silently inside a special trap, may hold answers to one of the greatest ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: What we think of as ‘the unknown’ isn’t always some hypothetical wormhole or alternate dimension. A lot of times, the ‘unknown’ is something real, ...