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Dark matter and nanotech may vie for Nobel prizes

A scientist who helped prove the existence of dark matter and a researcher who used the power of jellyfish to glow green in experiments may win Nobel prizes, Thomson Reuters said on Wednesday.

Dark matter and nanotech may vie for Nobel prizes

LONDON (Reuters) - A scientist who helped prove the existence of dark matter and a researcher who used the power of jellyfish to glow green in experiments may win Nobel prizes, Thomson Reuters said on Wednesday.

Dark matter and nanotech may vie for Nobel prizes

LONDON (Reuters) - A scientist who helped prove the existence of dark matter and a researcher who used the power of jellyfish to glow green in experiments may win Nobel prizes, Thomson Reuters said on Wednesday.

Dark matter and nanotech may vie for Nobel prizes

LONDON (Reuters) - A scientist who helped prove the existence of dark matter and a researcher who used the power of jellyfish to glow green in experiments may win Nobel prizes, Thomson Reuters said on Wednesday.

Dark matter and nanotech may vie for Nobel prizes

LONDON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - A scientist who helped prove the existence of dark matter and a researcher who used the power of jellyfish to glow green in experiments may win Nobel prizes, Thomson Reuters said on Wednesday.

Dark matter and nanotech may vie for Nobel prizes (Reuters)

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A Chance to See Dark Matter

Most of the matter in the universe is the mysterious dark matter, which astronomers can detect through gravitational effects but cannot actually see. The visible matter, or baryonic matter, that we're familiar with seems to make up only about 5% of the known universe compared to the 25% of dark matter!

Dark matter may shine with invisible 'dark light'

Mysterious dark matter could be shining with its own private kind of light. This "dark radiation" would be invisible to us, but could still have visible effects.

Are We Close to Finding Dark Matter?

Scientists say he search for the mysterious substance which makes up most of the Universe could soon be at an end. A massive computer simulation was used to show the evolution of a galaxy like the Milky Way, and analysts were able to "see" gamma-rays given off by dark matter. Dark matter is believed to account for 85 per cent of the Universe's mass but has remained invisible to telescopes since scientists inferred its existence from its gravitational effects more than 75 years ago. If the computations are correct, the findings could help NASA's Fermi Telescope to search for the dark matter and open a new chapter in our understanding of the Universe.

Irrelevant Scientific Research Honored

More than 1,000 people attended this year's Ig Nobel awards, a light-hearted alternative to the Nobel Prizes. Scientists who unlocked the inner secrets of dog fleas, crisps and tangled string swept the show. Handing out awards was William Lipscomb, the 1976 Nobel laureate for chemistry, also doubling Thursday, at the age of 89, as the hero in the "Win-a-Date-With-a-Nobel-Laureate Contest." The prize itself is a plaque that reads, "This Ig Nobel Prize is awarded in the year 2008 to an Ig Nobel Prize Winner, in recognition of the Ig Nobel Prize Winners' Ig Nobel Prize winning achievement." At last I can submit my paper, "Everything is Really Wet, Even Dry Stuff." for peer review.

Simulations Predict Where We Can Find Dark Matter

p1234 writes with this excerpt from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics: "Simulations by the Virgo team show how the Milky Way's halo grew through a series of violent collisions and mergers from millions of much smaller clumps that emerged from the Big Bang. ... If Fermi does detect the predicted emission from the Milky Way's smooth inner halo, then it may, if we are lucky, also see gamma-rays from small (and otherwise invisible) clumps of dark matter which happen to lie particularly close to the Sun. ... The largest simulation took 3.5 million processor hours to complete. Volker Springel was responsible for shepherding the calculation through the machine and said: 'At times I thought it would never finish.' Max Planck Director, Professor Simon White, remarked that 'These calculations finally allow us to see what the dark matter dis

Dark matter, new planets could bring physics Nobel

(AP) -- Scientists who have pursued dark matter, hunted for undiscovered planets and advanced nanotechnology were being touted Monday as candidates for the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics.

Mysterious electrons may be sign of dark matter

Dark matter is proving less shadowy than its name suggests. Its signature may have been detected by a balloon-borne experiment that measured a surprisingly high number of energetic electrons streaming in from space.

A Nobel calling: Predicting the science Nobel Prizes winners

A monument to Nobel Prize founder Alfred Nobel in New York City. Some of the most eminent names in science will tumble out of bed this week with news that they've been awarded a Nobel Prize.

Dark Matter And Nanotech Collide In Race For Nobel Prize

A survey released by Thomson Reuters Corp on Wednesday has named the most likely scientists to receive this year’s prestigious Nobel Prize.

Scientists closer to finding dark matter

Researchers may be closer to detecting dark matter, the mysterious matter that scientists believe makes up the majority of the observable universe.

Simulation points scientists to dark matter

This simulation shows the projected distribution of dark matter in the Milky Way. Myriad concentrations of dark matter are embedded within the galaxy's halo, and their dense centers emit energetic gamma rays from the annihilation of particles.

Space Dust Is Dark Matter

A small number of scientists defines space dust as the observable portion of dark matter. Space dust is comprised of small particles (about 0.1 mm) which reflect light on a very large scale. This is what can be seen of dark matter, not observable directly, but its hypothetical effects have been noticed.

Stars that Eat Dark Matter Live Longer

A recent study indicates that there are stars in the proximity of the Milky Way's core that feed on dark matter, thus prolonging their lifespan with more than a billion years. Finding them would possibly help understanding what dark matter really is and how exactly it functions.

The Whereabouts of Dark Matter Revealed

According to a Reuters article, a recent vast-scale simulation of the creation and evolution of a Milky Way-type of galaxy has indicated some potential places in space where scientists should search for dark matter. Although the existence of the matter that forms a huge part of the universe has been known for a long time, and theoretically proved, all efforts to actually discover it turned out to be useless. However, in light of their research, experts may yet stand a chance.

Where will new Fermi telescope find dark matter?

More than a billion particles were included in a simulation of dark matter in a Milky Way-like galaxy. The annihilation of dark matter in a cloud-like halo around the galaxy should produce a diffuse glow of gamma rays that could be detected by NASA's new Fermi telescope (Simulation: Virgo Consortium)

Clump of dark matter may loom near solar system

A balloon-borne instrument soaring high over Antarctica has found evidence of a possible large clump of mysterious so-called dark matter relatively close to our solar system, scientists said on Wednesday.

Clump Of Dark Matter May Loom Near Solar System

A balloon-borne instrument soaring high over Antarctica has found evidence of a possible large clump of mysterious so-called dark matter relatively close to our solar system, scientists said on Wednesday.

New detector may improve detection of dark matter in Universe

Washington, Oct 16 : A team of researchers in Canada have made a bold stride in the struggle to detect dark matter, by documenting the discovery of a significant difference between the acoustic signals induced by neutrons and alpha particles in a detector based on superheated liquids.

Anti-Matter Created By Laser At Livermore

zootropole alerts us to a press release issued today by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, announcing the production of 'billions of particles of anti-matter.' "Take a gold sample the size of the head of a push pin, shoot a laser through it, and suddenly more than 100 billion particles of anti-matter appear. The anti-matter, also known as positrons, shoots out of the target in a cone-shaped plasma 'jet.' This new ability to create a large number of positrons in a small laboratory opens the door to several fresh avenues of anti-matter research, including an understanding of the physics underlying various astrophysical phenomena such as black holes and gamma ray bursts." The press release doesn't characterize the laser used in this experiment, but it may have been this one.

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