During 2008, a number of scientific observations conducted in the upper atmosphere and in deep space yielded very promising results for research teams looking for the elusive dark matter around our planet. Large amounts of high-energy electrons were discovered just outside the Earth, and astronomers hypothesized that... |
7 May 2009
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The current largely adopted view on dark matter implies that it's mostly made of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). Although these are theoretical massive particles that scarcely interact with regular matter, making them very hard to detect, a huge effort has been made to discover them, on a global sc... |
15 December 2008
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A major step in the actual discovery of dark matter, or at least a honing of the discovery process, was performed by the PICASSO project taking place at SNOLAB, in Canada. Scientists came upon a method to refine the search by finding that, under certain conditions, dark matter's WIMPs yield different acoustic si... |
16 October 2008
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The construction of the 12 observation lines of the first underwater neutrino telescope, Antares, is now complete and for more than a month now, two of the observation lines have been operational, continuously looking for any sign of neutrino particles coming from out of space. Antares is part of the European Antares... |
5 July 2008
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The attention of the world has recently been focused on the startling assertion made by the DAMA experiment researchers claiming that they have found evidence of WIMP particles existence, possible constituents of dark matter, while the Large Hadron Collider was somehow forgotten for a brief period of time. The most p... |
24 April 2008
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Last week, physicists from the Dark Matter experiment running for the last five years under 1.4 kilometers of solid rock beneath the Gran Sasso mountain in Italy, presented their findings suggesting that dark matter particles had been discovered in the 250 kilograms sodium-iodide WIMP detector. Dark matter was first ... |
23 April 2008
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