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• CONGRATS MOTHER EARTH! YOU’VE SURVIVED THE FIRST HADRON COLLIDER SMASH

  
  MEANINGFUL DISTRACTION — Authority: 110
  Those of you who read science things or have had the unfortunate experience of seeing the second Dan Brown/Tom Hanks flick Angels and Demons are probably familiar with the Hadron Collider. Located outside of Geneva, it’s a $9 billion, 17 mile racetrack like structure that shoots a bunch of beams of protons back ...
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• Exploding stars and the accelerating cosmos: Einstein’s blunder undone

  
  Free Radicals - science and sustainability news from the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney — Authority: 107
  Interested in Cosmos, dark matter or dark energy, this talk may be for you.Recent observations of exploding stars discovered halfway across the Universe reveal an astonishing fact: the expansion of the Universe is speeding up! Apparently, the Universe is dominated by a mysterious dark energy that drives cosmic ...
  5 days ago

• Fermi may have spotted dark matter

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 702
  One of the secondary goals of the Fermi gamma ray satellite is to look for the signature of dark matter. One idea for dark matter is that it’s composed of weird (and as yet undetected) particles called WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles). A very odd property about them is that they are self-annihilating: ...
  6 days ago

• blue is the colour of four knocks

  
  rashbre central — Authority: 128
  Ive been chained to my desk again today and Im just about to start my evening shift. I did take a short break for food and watched the Bowie base on Mars being attacked in Doctor Who. But not by spiders. The Waters of Mars. There were water based organisms that made people into smiling cracked faced Zombies. The ...
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• Neutralinos--Candidate for Dark Matter and Lynchpin for Supersymmetry Next on List at LHC

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 129
  The reason physicists are so excited about the LHC, though, is that the kind of supersymmetry that best solves the problem with the Higgs will become visible at the higher energies the LHC will explore.
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• No Night Without A Telescope Is No Dark Matter

  
  The Bi-College News Online — Authority: 142
  By Malisa Smith "If you have never looked through a decent telescope before, you have no idea of the amount of detail that is in space," said Haverford’s Professor of Astronomy, Bruce Partridge. "The eye itself cannot see the colors of most stars, but if you magnify space with a telescope you can…see all sorts of ...
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• Einstein’s Relativity and Dark Matter, or MOND, You Decide

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 133
  In a paper published in the journal Science, available online now here , astrophysicists address the interrelated issues of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, and dark matter (also known as missing mass). In the authors’ own words, “the modified theory of Newtonian ...
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• New Measurements Confirm Cosmologists’ Standard Model

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 615
  Written by Nicholos Wethington New measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the leftover light from the Big Bang – lend further support the Standard Cosmological Model and the existence of dark matter and dark energy, limiting the possibility of alternative models of the Universe.Researchers from ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dark Matter Search Hits Snag

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 133
  Reporting on an attempt to repeat dark matter detection experiments, first reported in the European Physics Journal in 2008, a group of astrophysicists led by Frank Calaprice at Princeton University have informed the journal Nature that they may not be able to replicate the experiment due to the lack of sufficiently ...
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• Stars Fueled by Dark Matter Could Hold Secrets to the Universe

  
  SciNewsBlog — Authority: 136
  Simulated view of a black hole in front of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Dark stars could grow to become much larger than normal stars, and might collapse to form the giant black holes in the centers of galaxies. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Stars Fueled by Dark Matter Could Hold Secrets to the Universe ...
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• Cosmic glow is map of early universe

  
  Skymania News | Space headlines — Authority: 414
  Astronomers have peered billions of years back in time to make detailed maps of the early cosmos. They used a giant telescope near the South Pole to observe a faintly glowing echo of the young universe. An international team jointly led by Professor Walter Gear of Cardiff University and Professor Sarah Church of ...
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• Stupid Creationist Arguments 3: The Fine Tuned Argument

  
  Lone Wolfs Den — Authority: 113
  The argument is self explanatory. The universe, the earth, blah has been fine tuned fro life. Some take the argument further and say the universe, the earth, blah has been fine tuned for human life.I’ll start with the universe: The majority of the universe is empty space. The vast majority of the matter in the [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Cosmologists’ standard view of the universe confirmed by scientists

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Washington, November 3 (ANI): An international team of scientists has used high-precision measurements to confirm what is cosmologists’ standard view of the universe.These measurements of the cosmic microwave background-a faintly glowing relic of the hot, dense, young universe-put limits on proposed alternatives to ...
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• An Alternative Dark Matter Theory

  
  Mystic Medusa — Authority: 484
  “…The theory of Dark Matter tells us as much about the modern unconscious as about the cosmos. Jung noticed that whatever we suppress gathers in the unconscious and throws a ’shadow’ over the world. Dark Matter is precisely the shadow of the imaginative fullness we have denied to our cosmos. The daimons we ...
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• Findings on Mysterious Haze at Galaxy’s Center

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  Astronomers said the particles around the core of the Milky Way might be the decayed remains of the long-sought dark matter that constituted a quarter of the universe.
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• Can supercomputers unravel universe’s secrets?

  
  Invest In India — Authority: 134
  Scientists are using the world’s fastest supercomputer to model origins of the unseen universe including dark energy. Understanding dark energy is the number one issue in explaining the universe, according to Salman Habib of the Laboratory’s Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology Group. Even ...
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• A Universe From Nothing

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 491
  The origin of the universe is one of the biggest questions there is. Some people resort to easy answers – which don’t answer anything. But its good to know that others do take the question seriously and actively research it. Here is a great lecture from Lawrence Krauss – “A Universe from Nothing”. He is ...
  4 weeks ago

• Monster supernovae may be causing Milky Way’s mysterious “haze”

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  London, October 28 (ANI): Scientists have suggested that a load of monster supernovae may be causing a mysterious “haze” of radiation at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy.In 2003, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe found a patch of particularly energetic microwave radiation in the centre of our galaxy - ...
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• World’s fastest supercomputer to reveal secrets of ‘unseen’ universe

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Washington, October 27 (ANI): Scientists are using the world’s fastest supercomputer to model origins of the unseen universe, namely, dark energy.Understanding dark energy is the number one issue in explaining the universe, according to Salman Habib, of the Laboratory’s Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics ...
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• What is Dark Matter?

  
  Starts With A Bang — Authority: 564
  Perhaps youve been following my ongoing series on dark matter . Perhaps, like many, youre still skeptical. After all, its not like weve gone and made it in a lab or discovered it in an experiment. 15 years after David Weinberg composed the Dark Matter Rap , we still dont know exactly what dark matter ...
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