Is dark matter’s main rival theory dead? There’s bad news from the Cassini spacecraft and other recent tests

Recent research shows the main alternative theory to dark matter, Milgromian dynamics, is failing.

Harry Desmond, Senior Research Fellow of Cosmology, University of Portsmouth • conversation
May 9, 2024 • ~8 min

Dark matter does exist, simulations indicate

New research digs into a fundamental astrophysics debate: does dark matter need to exist to explain how the universe works the way it does?

Lucas Van Wyk Joel-UC Irvine • futurity
April 30, 2024 • ~6 min

Dark matter: our new experiment aims to turn the ghostly substance into actual light

An exciting new experiment is being set up at Yale university in the US.

Andrea Gallo Rosso, Postdoctoral Fellow of Physics, Stockholm University • conversation
April 25, 2024 • ~7 min

‘Dark stars’: dark matter may form exploding stars – and observing the damage could help reveal what it’s made of

We may be able to find traces of dark matter star explosions.

Andreea Font, Reader in Theoretical Astrophysics, Liverpool John Moores University • conversation
March 21, 2024 • ~7 min

How a balloon-borne experiment can do the job of the Hubble space telescope

Giant helium balloons are a cheap, more environmentally friendly alternative to rocket launches – and you get the satellite back.

Fionagh Thomson, Senior Research Fellow in Disruptive Technologies, Space/Environmental Ethics, Visual ethnographer, Durham University • conversation
March 20, 2024 • ~9 min

Study: Stars travel more slowly at Milky Way’s edge

The findings suggest our galaxy’s core may contain less dark matter than previously estimated.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News • mit
Jan. 26, 2024 • ~8 min

Dark energy is one of the biggest puzzles in science and we're now a step closer to understanding it

The nature of dark energy remains one of the biggest puzzles in cosmology.

Robert Nichol, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean, University of Surrey • conversation
Jan. 8, 2024 • ~6 min

Pollution from coal power plants contributes to far more deaths than scientists realized, study shows

The longest-running study of its kind reviewed death records in the path of pollution from coal-fired power plants. The numbers are staggering − but also falling fast as US coal plants close.

Lucas Henneman, Assistant Professor of Engineering, George Mason University • conversation
Nov. 23, 2023 • ~8 min

How we're building the world's biggest optical telescope to crack some of the greatest puzzles in science

From improving our understanding of dark matter to revealing the location of Earth 2.0, the Extremely Large Telescope promises answers to some of the biggest scientific questions of our time.

Derryck Telford Reid, Professor of Physics, Heriot-Watt University • conversation
Nov. 8, 2023 • ~6 min

Next spat with your partner, try silence

If you're doing all the talking, then you're probably doing it wrong, says negotiation expert.

Harvard Gazette • harvard
Sept. 11, 2023 • ~5 min

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