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Dark Matter: Now You See It, Now You Don’t
Two interesting claims about dark matter this week, and on the face of it, completely contradictory, but in fact, not obviously so. Before saying one word more, let me repeat my mantra — something that...
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Science Down, Up, and Inside-Out
First, a couple of things you might like to read: There was a long-overdue article from the New York Times as to how, after eight years of cuts from the Bush administration during good economic times,...
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Dark Matter Around the Corner?
The meaning of the title of Clara Moskowitz’s new article for the public, “Dark Matter Mystery May Soon Be Solved“, all lies in the word “may”. It may. It may not. According to the article, “the...
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TIME for a Little Soul-Searching
Yes, it was funny, as I hope you enjoyed in my post from Saturday; but really, when we step back and look at it, something is dreadfully wrong and quite sad. Somehow TIME magazine, fairly reputable on...
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Wednesday: Sean Carroll & I Interviewed by Alan Boyle
On Wednesday February 6th, at 9 pm Eastern/6 pm Pacific time, Sean Carroll and I will be interviewed by Alan Boyle on “Virtually Speaking Science”. The link where you can listen in (in real time or...
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European Weather Model Does It Again?
We’re gearing up for another big-time storm predicted for the northeastern United States — we’ve had more than we need over recent months — so before we perhaps lose power (or you do)… …I want to...
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AMS Presents Some First Results on Cosmic Rays and Dark Matter
The Alpha Muon Spectrometer [AMS] finally reported its first scientific results today. AMS, a rather large particle physics detector attached to the International Space Station, is designed to study...
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A Murky Matter, Several Times Over
Dark Matter, Dark Matter, Everywhere! It’s in your shoes, it’s in your coffee, it’s in the stars and even in your favorite cheese… at least, it’s widely believed to be wandering all about, mostly...
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A Few Items of Interest
I was sent or came across a few interesting links that relate to things covered on this blog and/or of general scientific interest. It was announced yesterday that the European Physical Society 2013...
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Science Down, Up, and Inside-Out
First, a couple of things you might like to read: There was a long-overdue article from the New York Times as to how, after eight years of cuts from the Bush administration during good economic times,...
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Dark Matter Around the Corner?
The meaning of the title of Clara Moskowitz’s new article for the public, “Dark Matter Mystery May Soon Be Solved“, all lies in the word “may”. It may. It may not. According to the article, “the...
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Wednesday: Sean Carroll & I Interviewed Again by Alan Boyle
Today, Wednesday December 4th, at 8 pm Eastern/5 pm Pacific time, Sean Carroll and I will be interviewed again by Alan Boyle on “Virtually Speaking Science”. The link where you can listen in (in real...
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Unexpected Decays of the Higgs Particle: What We Found
A few weeks ago, I reported on the completion of a large project, with which I’ve been personally involved, to investigate how particle physicists at the Large Hadron Collider [LHC] could be searching,...
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More Examples of Possible Unexpected Higgs Decays
As I explained on Tuesday, I’m currently writing articles for this website that summarize the results of a study, on which I’m one of thirteen co-authors, of various types of decays that the...
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X-Rays From Dark Matter? A Little Hint For You To Enjoy
Well it’s not much to write home about, and I’m not going to write about it in detail right now, but the Resonaances blog has done so (and he’s asking for your traffic, so please click): A team of six...
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Could the Higgs Decay to New Z-like Particles?
Today I’m continuing with my series, begun last Tuesday (click here for more details on the project), on the possibility that the Higgs particle discovered 18 months ago might decay in unexpected ways....
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Dark Matter: Unseen, But Yet Again in the Limelight
The past two weeks have been busy! I was on the road, consulting with and learning from particle experimenters and theorists at Caltech and the University of California at Irvine. And I’ve been giving...
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Which Parts of the Big Bang Theory are Reliable, and Why?
Familiar throughout our international culture, the “Big Bang” is well-known as the theory that scientists use to describe and explain the history of the universe. But the theory is not a single...
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Dark Matter Debates
Last week I attended the Eighth Harvard-Smithsonian Conference on Theoretical Astrophysics, entitled “Debates on the Nature of Dark Matter”, which brought together leading figures in astronomy,...
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The LHC restarts — in a manner of speaking —
As many of you will have already read, the Large Hadron Collider [LHC], located at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, has “restarted”. Well, a restart of such a machine, after two years of...
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