The latest experiment also represents the first time the LZ team applied a technique called “salting,” in which false WIMP ...

Xenon is a trace gas found in the Earth's atmosphere to the extent of about one part in 20 million, ... This dark matter detector also uses liquid xenon. Though the project didn't find anything, ...

They’ll have purchased xenon gas, purified it even further, and liquefied it for their detector. Other groups, like the XENON collaboration based in Italy, are planning even bigger detectors ...

Brown is one of several scientists working on the XENON Collaboration, which runs the XENON1T experiment. XENON1T is a dark matter detector. It features a giant vat of super-pure liquid xenon.

A mile underground in a former South Dakota gold mine, the Large Underground Xenon detector was the latest, greatest attempt to find dark matter, the elusive material that physicists think makes ...

The use of xenon gas by a group of British mountaineers before they began an expedition to climb the world's highest mountain in less than five days has raised questions about its effectiveness ...

Xenon, a noble gas with anesthetic properties, exhibits neuroprotective effects. It is reliable, efficacious and nontoxic, and has been used safely in clinical settings in patients of all ages.

The LUX dark matter detector. Matt Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility The Large Underground Xenon's dark matter detector turned up nothing, it was revealed Wednesday, but that's not the ...

His team is devising ways to use xenon gas more efficiently and exploring its potential for easing multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s disease and eye conditions involving the loss of neurons ...

Researchers at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new microfluidic chip that can not only produce polarized (or magnetized) xenon gas to be used in ...

Dark-matter detector could pin down the Universe's missing mass. ... An electric field would pull these electrons through the liquid into the xenon gas, ...