Tag Archives: dark matter

The Dark Side of the Universe

Posted on 02/03/2016 by Jon Butterworth

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CERN makes a hotter quark-gluon soup

Posted on 30/11/2015 by Jon Butterworth

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Light and Dark Matter in Durham

Posted on 15/11/2015 by Jon Butterworth

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Has physics cried wolf too often, or do false alarms help build understanding?

Posted on 05/07/2015 by Jon Butterworth

Mistakes are embarrassing, and getting over-excited about a statistical anomaly is silly. But these things happen, and the answer to building public confidence in science is not to pretend that they don’t Last week I wrote about a possible signal … Continue reading →

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