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No WIMPs yet (and no HE neutrinos either)
There were big expectations for Xenon 100, a leading experiment in the race for the direct detection of Dark Matter. But the results announced today are somewhat disappointing, since the…
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Space traffic jam: AMS-02 launch postponed to April 29
The launch date of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02 (“-02” because it is the successor of first AMS experiment, flown into space in June 1998) has been postponed to April 29…
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More surprises from PAMELA
The PAMELA satellite has been launched in 2006 and since then it has held many surprises. Back in 2008, the PAMELA collaboration found an anomalous cosmic positron abundance, which prompted the…
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Convincing proof of extraterrestrial life?
On March 2, the Journal of Cosmology has sent an invitation to send a 1000 words commentary on a paper of R. Hoover (go there only if you are interested, as they’ll…