Leading Harvard Physicist Has A Radical New Theory for Why Humans Exist [Business Insider]
Article (7 minutes) – Jessica Orwig
“In her latest book, she posits that the extinction of the dinosaurs — necessary for the emergence of humans — is linked to dark matter…”
The Dark Universe [The Royal Institution]
Video (38 minutes) – Adam Riess
“We have a prescription now for the universe which is that it’s about 0.05% planets, 0.5% stars, 4% gas, 23% dark matter, and 73% of the universe is made up of this weird dark energy… ”
Earth Might Have Hairy Dark Matter [NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory]
Article (5 minutes) – Gary Prézeau
“A new study publishing this week Gary Prézeau of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, proposes the existence of long filaments of dark matter, or “hairs…”
Dark Matter’s Newest Pursuer [Symmetry]
Article (6 minutes) – Mike Ross
“Researchers at a laboratory deep underneath the tallest mountain in central Italy have inaugurated XENON1T, the world’s largest and most sensitive device designed to detect a popular dark matter candidate…”
Can We Test Dark Energy Using The Solar System? [Starts With A Bang!]
Article (7 minutes) – Ethan Siegel
“While the force of dark energy isn’t quite able to unbind things like galaxies, star clusters or solar systems, it does have real effects on the fabric of spacetime itself. While those effects may be small and subtle, given enough precision, we should be able to detect them…”
Dark Matter: The Matter We Can’t See [TED Ed]
Video (6 minutes) – James Gillies
“Visible matter comprises only 4% of the universe. CERN scientist James Gillies tells us what accounts for the remaining 96% (dark matter and dark energy) and how we might go about detecting it…”
Nearby Galaxy Contains Highest Concentration of Dark Matter Ever Detected [Science Alert]
Article (4 minutes)
“With a relatively small number of stars, this small, faint galaxy is not the easiest to investigate, but there was no mistaking how unusual its light-to-dark ratio is…”
Mysterious Dark Matter May Not Always Have Been Dark [Space.com]
Article (7 minutes) – Charles Q. Choi
“This may have happened in the early universe, when the temperature was very high — so high that both ordinary and dark matter were ‘melted’ in a plasma state made up of their ingredients…”
Thanks for reading,
Joe Howard
