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A Minimalist Approach to the Hunt for Dark Matter

Specifically, the Antipas team used their experiments to search for a class of dark matter known as ultralight dark matter. At their heaviest, ultra-bright dark matter particles are still about a trillion times lighter than electrons. According to quantum mechanics, all matter has both particle-like and wave-like qualities, with larger objects typically having more particle-like qualities and smaller ones having more wave-like qualities. “When people talk about ultra-bright dark matter, they mean that dark matter is more like a wave,” said physicist Kathryn Zurek of the California Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the experiment. Like all other dark matter experiments so far, the Antipas search has found nothing. However, the absence of their discovery helps limit the properties of dark matter, as experiments show what dark matter is not. Also, the team’s approach differs from that of the more famous dark matter experiment, which looks for particles known as WIMPs (

Physicists Find Oldest Dark Matter Yet With Microwave Lens

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Researchers have just studied the oldest lensing of light we can see and found the oldest dark matter ever observed, around a galaxy 12 billion years old. They spotted this dark matter by looking at how some galaxies bend the cosmic microwave background light, the earliest detectable radiation after the Big Bang, that rocked the universe as we know it. The team’s research is published in Physical Review Letters. “Most researchers use source galaxies to measure the distribution of dark matter from now to eight billion years ago,” said Yuichi Harikane, astronomer at the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research at the University of Tokyo and co-author of a recent paper, in a Nagoya University release. . “However, we were able to look further into the past because we used the CMB further afield to measure dark matter. For the first time, we’re measuring dark matter almost from the early days of the universe.” Dark matter makes up about 27% of the universe, although we cannot detect it directly

What Arrives on Screen: August 2022 - Dark Horizons

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Hulu, HBO, Netflix, Lucasfilm Here we continue the monthly section that will offer a quick checklist of what’s coming to theaters, VOD & SVOD services, and gaming platforms over the coming weeks. This is not an exhaustive list, but rather one featuring a main title and a few minor titles. Titles are separated by date and sorted by movies & movie rentals first, then TV, then games. On the film front, the “Predator” franchise returns with a live premiere to Hulu “Prey,” Brad Pitt takes on a lot of killers in “Bullet Train,” George Miller returns with “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” Apple tries to be Pixar with “ Luck,” Idris Elba faces off against a man-eating lion in “Beast,” and Kevin Bacon leads an evil conversion camp in “They/Them.” There’s also Jamie Foxx fighting vampires in “Day Shift,” Esther’s return in the prequel “Orphan: First Kill,” Lovecraftian gloryhole dark comedy “Glorious,” Stallone being a superhero in “Samaritan,” there’s HBO’s Princess Diana docu

The elusive particle: Scientists embark on a quest to find dark matter

In a former gold mine a mile underground, inside a titanium tank filled with a rare liquefied gas, scientists have begun a search for what so far has not been able to find: dark matter. Scientists are pretty sure invisible objects make up most of the mass of the universe and say we wouldn’t be here without them – but they don’t know what they are. The race to solve this great mystery has taken one team to the depths beneath Lead, South Dakota. The question for scientists is basic, says Kevin Lesko, a physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “What is this great place I live in? Right now, 95% of it is a mystery.” The idea is that a mile of dirt and rock, a giant tank, a second tank, and the world’s purest titanium will block out nearly all of the cosmic rays and particles that glide around – and penetrate – all of us every day. But dark matter particles, scientists say, can avoid all those obstacles. They hoped someone would fly into a vat of liquid xenon in the inner

Instagram looks different? Welcome to the murky world of 'dark patterns'

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Widespread criticism from Instagram users of the latest version of the app raises the question: Why did they change it? One answer is for the image and video sharing app to be more like its main rival, TikTok, which has grown its user base more rapidly. TikTok is purely video, so Instagram is heading there too. “We’ve been trying to make Instagram better through video,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a video last week. But the TikTok competition and the pivot to video still don’t account for all the changes. Why is it so hard to mute videos now? Why is it no longer possible to quickly and smoothly scroll through your feed? The answers to these questions lie in behavioral economics, app design, and the bleak world of “dark patterns”. Instagram says users want to watch more videos, although some say otherwise. What is a dark pattern? Dark patterns are all ways websites, apps, and other user interfaces are designed to intentionally obscure, mislead, coerce, and/or trick website visi

This Australian experimenter is looking for elusive particles that could help unlock the mysteries of dark matter

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Australian scientists are making strides to solve one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: the invisible nature of “dark matter”. The ORGAN Experiment, Australia’s first major dark matter detector, recently completed the search for a hypothetical particle called an axion — a popular candidate among theories trying to explain dark matter. ORGAN has placed new limits on the possible characteristics of axions and thus helped to narrow their search. But before we get ahead of ourselves… Let’s start with a story About 14 billion years ago, all the tiny bits of matter – the fundamental particles that would later become you, the planets and galaxies – were compressed into one very dense and hot region. Then the Big Bang happened and everything flew apart. Particles combine to form atoms, which eventually clump together into stars, which explode and create all kinds of exotic matter. After a few billion years came the Earth, which finally crawled on the little things called humans. Cool st

Hawaiian Lava Caves Are Full of 'Dark Matter' Bacteria

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Hawaii’s volcanic environment contains a mysterious variety of microbes, new research has discovered this week. Scientists say that the island’s lava caves and other structures created by volcanic activity have unique, diverse, and still-living bacterial communities within them. The findings suggest that much remains to be learned about life in some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. Researchers at several universities and NASA collaborated for the study, which was published Thursday in Frontiers in Microbiology. They studied samples collected from 70 sites along the Big Island of Hawaii, the largest island in the Hawaiian archipelago. These sites include caves, tubes, and fumaroles, which are openings or vents through which volcanic gases and water can escape. They analyzed and sequenced the RNA found in the samples, making it possible to create a rough map of the bacterial community living there. Stalactite formations in the Hawaiian cave system from this study with co

Monster Hydrothermal Field Found in the Dark Depths of the Eastern Pacific

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The large field of hydrothermal vents on the seafloor in the dark depths of the East Pacific ocean is the hottest and largest ever found in the region. Not only that, but in places where scientists don’t expect to find active vents, let alone the entire system, hundreds of meters from the axis of the volcanic ridge. The discovery, scientists say, could have a significant impact on our understanding of ventilation systems, and the role they play in marine ecosystems. The field was discovered by a team of scientists using autonomous underwater vehicles to map the ocean floor at depths inhospitable to human explorers. In the data obtained from the AUV. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Security the team looked at the region of the massive tower, standing three stories high at 2,560 (8,400 feet) meters below the surface – in permanently dark and silent bathypelagic depths. Ventilation is monitored with a temperature recorder. (WHOI/NDSF/ROV Jason/NSF) Initially, the team thought the v

Streaming The Russos Talk vs. Cinema - Dark Horizon

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Netflix Streaming vs. debate cinema is being weighed by filmmaker Joe Russo today, and there’s already been a lot of backlash going online in regards to what was said. Joe and brother Anthony Russo have played two sides of the coin – the pair are best known for directing some of the biggest cinema releases ever with the two “Avengers” films and the two most recent “Captain America” films. They’ve also been a huge hit at streaming, producing Chris Hemsworth’s Netflix-led hit “Extraction” while their big-budget “The Gray Man” starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans is out in theaters today and on Netflix next week. Speaking with THR, Joe Russo said Hollywood is facing a ‘culture war in terms of how films are made and released: “We are in a crisis right now because everyone is at war with each other. Sad to see it, as a man who grew up loving movies. One thing to keep in mind too, is the elitist idea of ​​being able to go to the theater. It’s very expensive. So, this created id

MIT is building a time-traveling dark matter detector

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A team of physicists at MIT recently published a stunning research paper detailing their successful attempt to use entanglement and ‘quantum time reversal’ to create sensors capable of taking very deep measurements. It sounds like a lot of science jargon, but the point is this could potentially lead to a legitimate ‘dark matter detector’, and it’s something that could revolutionize humanity’s understanding of everything . In advance: Physics is a moving target. Because we are like fish in an aquarium, we don’t know where the water we are swimming is coming from or what lies behind the blurry shadows on the edge of our glass-paneled horizon. Regards, humanoids Subscribe to our newsletter now for weekly recaps of our favorite AI stories in your inbox. To try to define our reality, we use the scientific method, the human imagination, and a lot of mathematics. But in the end, any theory is only as good as its ability to work with complementary theories. Albert Einstein, for example, spe

Dark Matter May Not Exist: This Physicist Supports New Theory Of Gravity

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By Indranil Banik, Postdoctoral Researcher from Astrophysics, University of St Andrews 10 July 2022 Dark matter is proposed to explain why stars at the far edges of galaxies can move faster than Newton predicted. An alternative theory of gravity may be a better explanation. Using Newton’s laws of physics, we can model the motion of the planets in the Solar System quite accurately. However, in the early 1970s, scientists discovered that this did not work for disk galaxies – the stars at their outer edges, away from the gravitational force of all matter at their centres – moving much faster than Newton’s theory predicted. As a result, physicists proposed that an invisible substance called “dark matter” exerted an extra gravitational pull, causing the stars to accelerate – a theory that became widely accepted. However, in a recent review, my colleagues and I suggested that observations at multiple scales are much better explained in an alternative theory of gravity called Milgromian o

A new hunt for dark matter has begun in an old gold mine, nearly 1 mile underground

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Deep in an old gold mine, in a vat of molten xenon, a new hunt has begun for dark matter — the mysterious thing that makes up about 85% of all matter in the universe. No one knows what dark matter actually is. Scientists know it exists because they can measure how its gravity affects distant galaxies, but they have never detected it directly. That’s the goal of a new experiment buried deep beneath Lead, South Dakota: to capture dark matter as it interacts with other particles. This experiment is called LUX-ZEPLIN, or LZ for short. This is a 10-ton vat of pure liquid xenon, equipped with a detector to capture the very faint energy flashes that will come from dark matter particles colliding with xenon atoms. The researchers announced Thursday that it was online and ready to search for new particles. “Dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries of particle physics today,” said Hugh Lippincott, spokesman for the LZ team of 250 scientists, in a live announcement.

The engine behind the 'God particle' is hunting for dark matter

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Breadcrumb Trail Link World Author: Washington Post Pranshu Verma, The Washington Post FILE PHOTO: An overview of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment is seen during a media visit at the Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in the French village of Saint-Genis-Pouilly near Geneva in Switzerland, July 23, 2014. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy/File Photo Article content Ten years ago, a team operating the world’s largest particle impactor made history by discovering the Higgs boson particle, a key discovery for understanding the creation of the universe, earning it the nickname “God particle.” Advertisement 2 This ad hasn’t loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content After a lag of more than three years for upgrades, the accelerator, run by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, is collecting data again. This time to prove the existence of another mysterious substance – dark matter. Although most scientists believe dark matter i