For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

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Some atomic nuclei are not shaped like rugby balls, as a longstanding theory suggests, but are instead somewhat flattened, like almonds, according to a new study by Japanese scientists.