Saturday Citations: Muons and the standard model, refuting an apocalypse, stellar tidal waves
This week on phys.org, we published news about muons, gigantic stellar waves, a Homo-erectus-thwarting mini ice age, and a new whale guy.
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Astronomers search for dark matter annihilation at the center of the Earth
Dark matter is one of the thorniest mysteries of modern cosmology. On the one hand, astronomers have gathered a wealth of supporting evidence through galaxy clustering statistics, gravitational lensing, and cosmic microwave ...
General Physics
Aug 11, 2023
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Video: The universe in a box: Preparing for Euclid's survey
ESA's Euclid mission will create a 3D-map of the universe that scientists will use to measure the properties of dark energy and dark matter and uncover the nature of these mysterious components. The map will contain a vast ...
Space Exploration
Aug 9, 2023
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Researchers dig deep underground in hopes of finally observing dark matter
Physicists like me don't fully understand what makes up about 83% of the matter of the universe—something we call "dark matter." But with a tank full of xenon buried nearly a mile under South Dakota, we might one day be ...
General Physics
Aug 9, 2023
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Smoking-gun evidence for modified gravity at low acceleration from Gaia observations of wide binary stars
A new study reports conclusive evidence for the breakdown of standard gravity in the low acceleration limit from a verifiable analysis of the orbital motions of long-period, widely separated, binary stars, usually referred ...
Astronomy
Aug 8, 2023
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Gravitational waves may reveal nature of dark matter
Observations of gravitational waves from merging black holes may reveal new insights about dark matter, suggests a new study from a UCL-led international team.
General Physics
Aug 8, 2023
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NASA's space-based quantum science lab keeps getting better
On Tuesday, Aug. 1, a major hardware update for NASA's Cold Atom Lab lifted off aboard a Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft on its way to the International Space Station. About the size of a small refrigerator, the ...
Quantum Physics
Aug 7, 2023
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First test images from Euclid space telescope unveiled
The Euclid space telescope, launched July 1 on a mission to shed more light on elusive dark matter and dark energy, has reached its destination orbit and on Monday its European operators revealed its first test images.
Space Exploration
Aug 5, 2023
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New analysis of SuperCDMS data sets tighter detection limits for dark matter
For nearly a century, dark matter has continued to evade direct detection, pushing scientists to come up with even more creative methods of searching. Increasingly sensitive detection experiments are a major undertaking, ...
Astronomy
Jul 28, 2023
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Looking for sterile neutrinos in the CMS muon system
The CMS collaboration has recently presented new results in searches for long-lived heavy neutral leptons (HNLs). Also known as "sterile neutrinos", HNLs are interesting hypothetical particles that could solve three major ...
General Physics
Jul 28, 2023
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