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Dark Matter May be Easier to Detect than Previously Thought

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Milky Way, like many other galaxies, is thought to be embedded in massive, lumpy amounts of dark matter that release gamma rays and other emissions. Although at first these emissions seem ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (30) | comments 44 feature

Physicists on the prowl for dark matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- 95%. That is the percentage of the known Universe that is missing. As in it is not there. Or at least if it is there, we can't see it. We call this unseen stuff "dark matter". That has been ...

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created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (35) | comments 89 weblog




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Fermi uses gamma rays to unearth clues about 'empty' space

The SLAC-built Large Area Telescope (LAT), the main instrument of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, has been studying the gamma-ray sky for almost four years. During that time, the LAT has identified ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Imaging complex domain wall structures in magnetic nanostripes

(Phys.org) -- Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have used the scanning electron microscopy with polarization analysis (SEMPA) technique to provide ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fermi observations of dwarf galaxies provide new insights on dark matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- There's more to the cosmos than meets the eye. About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 77 | with audio podcast

Physicists find patterns in new state of matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered patterns which underlie the properties of a new state of matter.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

How deep must life hide to be safe on Europa?

Jupiter's icy moon is subject to constant and significant blasts of radiation. A new experiment attempts to determine how deep life must lay beneath the crust in order to survive. This will be important for ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

The annihilating effects of space travel

Long distance space travel could create the ultimate 'killer entrance', devastating your destination and anything around the arriving spacecraft, according to calculations by Professor Geraint Lewis and two ...

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created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (24) | comments 34 | with audio podcast

'Anti-atomic fingerprint': Physicists manipulate anti-hydrogen atoms for the first time (Update)

The ALPHA collaboration at CERN in Geneva has scored another coup on the antimatter front by performing the first-ever spectroscopic measurements of the internal state of the antihydrogen atom. Their results ...

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created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (30) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

First results from Daya Bay find new kind of neutrino transformation

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, a multinational collaboration operating in the south of China, today reported the first results of its search for the last, most elusive piece of a long-standing puzzle: ...

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created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

'Mass Effect 3' game begins epic battle for Earth

The year's most hotly anticipated videogame lands Tuesday as the final installment of a "Mass Effect" trilogy immerses players in an epic battle for Earth.

Technology / Software

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Novel molecules to fight cancer resistance

A French-Italian team headed by researchers from CNRS and Inserm has discovered a new family of compounds that could make it possible to treat numerous cancers, particularly brain tumors and skin cancers. ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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