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Dark Matter Signal, Dark Energy Challenged & Tsunami Physics Rewritten
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A Japanese astrophysicist has pulled the clearest dark matter candidate signal in history from Fermi telescope data — and in the same news cycle, researchers are arguing dark energy may not exist at all. Plus Perseverance's biggest organic chemistry find yet, SWOT's tsunami surprise, and tracking asteroid 1997 NC1.
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A Japanese astrophysicist may have just detected dark matter. That's not a theoretical claim or a simulation result.
The other major physics story today cuts in a different direction entirely. Researchers at the University of Canterbury are arguing that dark energy, the force thought to be accelerating the universe's expansion, may not exist at all.
NASA's SWOT satellite has delivered something unexpected. When a major tsunami struck near Kamchatka in July twenty twenty-five, SWOT captured the wave field at a resolution no instrument had managed before.
On Mars, Perseverance has found the highest concentration of complex carbon-based molecules yet recorded in Jezero crater. The location matters.
A few other developments worth tracking. Asteroid 1997 NC1, estimated at two to four times the height of the Empire State Building, passes within one point six million miles of Earth on Saturday.
Two things are worth watching closely. The dark matter gamma ray signal needs dwarf galaxy confirmation, and the timescape model needs supernovae data.
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