Observation, simulation, and AI join forces to reveal a clear universe

After extensive training and testing on large mock data created by supercomputer simulations, they then applied this new tool to actual data from Japan’s Subaru Telescope and found that the…

Seeing dark matter in a new light

A small team of astronomers have found a new way to ‘see’ the elusive dark matter haloes that surround galaxies, with a new technique 10 times more precise than the…

Holding up a mirror to a dark matter discrepancy

Dark matter does not emit, absorb, or reflect light. It does not interact with any known particles. Its presence is known only through its gravitational pull on visible matter in…

Scientists find further evidence for a population of dark matter deficient dwarf galaxies

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters This figure illustrates structure in the simulated universe, in a box 200 million light-years on each side. It is color coded, using black, green, yellow,…

Deep dive for dark matter may aid all of data science

National Science Foundation backs Rice-led effort to create science-aware artificial intelligence Rice University HOUSTON — (Sept. 18, 2019) — A Rice University scientist and his colleagues are booting their search…

Dark matter mapped in the universe for the first time

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Scientists have, for the first time, directly detected part of the invisible dark matter skeleton of the universe, where more than half of all matter is believed to…

IPCC declares itself exempt from FOIA laws

From Bishop Hill, such a short story that it is difficult to excerpt, and given the importance, and the continuation reference to the story I broke on WUWT, I don’t…