The formation of cosmic structure, on both large scales and small scales, is highly dependent on how dark matter and normal matter interact, as well as the initial density fluctuations that have their ...

For more than a century, schoolbook physics has divided matter into neat categories like solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A ...

Scientists just released the first-ever images taken with the German space agency’s X-ray telescope eROSITA, at an event at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. The new images could ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds of galaxies, gas and dark matter that makes ...

Dark matter is one of the most mysterious and yet most ubiquitous substances in the Universe. While things like human beings, the Earth, the Sun, and everything that emits or absorbs light in space ...

Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This distorted structure could naturally explain the puzzling gamma-ray glow long ...

The white matter structure in the brain reflects music sensitivity, according to a study by the research group on Cognition and Brain Plasticity of the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of ...

Although it makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, dark matter is frustratingly hard to pin down. In order to figure out what it is, much of the search is about ruling out what dark ...

People who still have very sharp memory into old age—known as "superagers"—may get their impressive powers from certain areas of the brain being preserved. Brain structures known as white matter ...

The white matter structure in the brain reflects music sensitivity, according to a new study. The white matter structure in the brain reflects music sensitivity, according to a study by the research ...

Alzheimer’s disease (Alzheimer’s) is conceptualized as a progressive consequence of two hallmark pathological changes in gray matter, in particular, extracellular amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary ...

Share on Pinterest Long-term use of prescription steroids has a negative impact on white matter, new study shows. Image credit: Maciej Frolow/Getty Images. Glucocorticoids — commonly known as ...