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A Victory for Dark Matter in a Galaxy Without Any

(Originally posted to http://quantamagazine.org)

Paradoxically, a small galaxy that seems to contain none of the invisible stuff known as “dark matter” may help prove that it exists.

Electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons, interact around a neutron star in this visualization. Why is there so much more matter than antimatter in the universe we can see? (Image: © NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)

The Universe's Dark Secret: Where Did All the Antimatter Go?

The universe ought to be swimming with antimatter, and scientists aren't quite sure where it all went. Paul Sutter, community outreach coordinator at the Center for Cosmology and…

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Aces of Trades – Michael Stamatikos works with NASA in Newark

NEWARK – Michael Stamatikos loves science. And that may be a bit of an understatement. He teaches, for instance, physics and astronomy at OSU’s Newark campus. “Mike is passionate,” assessed William…

Newark Visit

President Drake visits SciDome, Newark campus

Inside a darkened theater in…

Super-Kamioka Neutrino Detection Experiment in Japan

Beacom helps guide efforts to detect neutrinos from supernovae

Recent upgrades to the Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory will allow it to trace the history of exploding stars.

A research initiative co-led by John Beacom, professor…

Andromeda Galaxy

WFIRST could find more than 1,400 new planets

The study, by a team of astronomers at The Ohio State University, provides the most detailed estimates to date of the potential reach of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope mission (nicknamed…

David DeFelice, Community Relations Outreach director for NASA's Glenn Research Center, talks about how three astronauts were wedged into Apollo capsules during space missions. The Apollo exhibit opened Saturday at The Works.

NASA Apollo exhibit blasts off at The Works

NEWARK - NASA's "Apollo and the Next Giant Leap" exhibit at The Works was delayed by a month due to the government shutdown. But timing is everything. As STEMfest (Science, Technology, Education and…

Laura Lopez

Laura Lopez named one of this year's Cottrell Scholars

Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), America's first foundation dedicated wholly to science, announces 24 recipients of its 2019 Cottrell Scholar Awards. These Awards provide $100…