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These Violent Collisions Could Be Producing Dark Matter
A collision of two extraordinarily dense, collapsed stars in the distant universe is providing potential clues to the axion, a dark matter candidate first proposed half a century ago. The stellar remnants are neutron stars, the corpses that remain after massive stars collapse in on themselves. These dead stars are so dense that their electrons…
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Extremely Sensitive Dark Matter Experiment Detects Something Weird
A mysterious signal has appeared in an extremely sensitive dark matter-hunting experiment. And after more than a year of trying to convince themselves that they were looking at noise, scientists think they might have found something new.
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New Results Cast Doubt On Strange Dark Matter Signal
XMASS-I under construction in Japan The search for dark matter — the stuff that seems to make up most of the mass in the Universe, but which is invisible to us — is loaded with new ideas, tantalising hints, and incredibly advanced experiments. Unfortunately, none of science’s best efforts have yielded any definitive proof of…
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Raspberry Pi 2 Loses It When You Blast It With A Camera Flash
One user of the newly available Raspberry Pi 2 computer has discovered a pretty weird flaw with the new hardware: If you shoot the cheapy computer with a camera flash, it shuts right the hell down.