Scientists build ultra-sensitive detectors to study dark matter and dark energy, which make up most of the universe but remain unseen and poorly understood ...

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Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

A research group from Tohoku University and RIKEN has developed a high-speed, high-sensitivity terahertz-wave detector operating at room temperature, paving the way for advancements in the development ...

An array of photomultiplier tubes, used to detect faint sources of light, mounted inside the steel tank of the Eos detector. The photomultiplier tubes will eventually be submerged in water admixed ...

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment team has announced the results from its first scientific run today; the experiment is the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector, and though it did not find any ...

According to a study published in Nature Communications, researchers have created an extremely sensitive detector for identifying molecules based on their infrared vibrational “fingerprint.” ...

Position-sensitive detectors (PSDs) and corresponding measurement techniques have become essential components in modern scientific instrumentation. They translate spatial variations—often in the form ...

The lateral photovoltaic effect (LPE) describes the generation of a photovoltage parallel to a material’s surface under non-uniform illumination. This phenomenon underpins the function of ...