astrophysicists

Roughly 85% of the matter in the universe has never been directly detected, as it does not interact with standard scientific instruments. UCLA astrophysicist Alvine Kamaha and the LUX-ZEPLIN collaboration are working to change that, operating a detector nearly 1.6 kilometres underground in South Dakota to catch rare particle interactions from dark matter.

Roughly 85% of the matter in the universe has never been directly detected, a missing mass known as dark matter. UCLA astrophysicist Alvine Kamaha and the LUX-ZEPLIN collaboration are working to change that, operating a detector nearly 1.6 kilometres underground in South Dakota to catch rare particle interactions. The experiment is one of the leading efforts to observe dark matter particles directly for the first time.

Astrophysicist Franco Vazza has wrapped up his electromagnetism trivia challenge, revealing that the winning answer was correct only by a narrow margin. The question concerned why a Mickey Mouse figure floats, and the explanation given is magnetic levitation in a variable magnetic field, with Vazza sharing the physics behind the phenomenon with his followers.