Scientists create device to detect Universe’s dark matter

October 12th, 2009 LONDON - Scientists in Italy have hailed a remote control 'spider pill' camera with moving legs as a new way to scan for diseases. Dr Enrico Grasso, a cancer specialist at the University Hospital Tor Vergata in Rome, believe the device could help detect diseases, including cancer of the stomach or colon, by transforming the invasive procedure of diagnosing serious conditions.

October 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have said that an innovative new laser technique could be used to detect microbial life forms in Martian ice. According to scientists, the technique, called L.I.F.E.

September 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Rebutting National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan's assertions, K.

September 11th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Australian scientists have come up with a non-invasive screening tool for detecting obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). Snoring is a very early symptom of sleep apnoea, however, monitoring the changes in pitch, frequency and other characteristics of the snores can help detect OSA.

August 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new research, a team of scientists at Dartmouth university has proposed a new way of creating a reproduction black hole in the laboratory on a much-tinier scale than their celestial counterparts. The new method to create a tiny quantum sized black hole would allow researchers to better understand what physicist Stephen Hawking proposed more than 35 years ago: black holes are not totally void of activity; they emit photons, which is now known as Hawking radiation.

August 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A group of scientists in the U.S. have come up with the suggestion that a profile of the chemicals released from decomposing bodies may lead to a portable device capable enough to detect people buried in disasters and at crime scenes.

August 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study has determined that type 1a supernovae will have to be taken into account if astronomers are to use them for more precise measurements of cosmic distances and dark energy that is accelerating the expansion of the universe. The discovery of dark energy, a mysterious force that is accelerating the expansion of the universe, was based on observations of type 1a supernovae.

August 12th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - A team of scientists has established that a mysterious flux of particles in the Universe originates from exploding stars, rather than being proof of dark matter. Several independent studies recently discovered a mysterious flux of electrons and positrons in the universe.

July 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of astrophysicists has solved a mystery that led some scientists to speculate that the distribution of certain gamma rays in our Milky Way galaxy was evidence of a form of undetectable "dark matter" believed to make up much of the mass of the universe. In two separate scientific papers, the astrophysicists show that this distribution of gamma rays can be explained by the way "antimatter positrons" from the radioactive decay of elements, created by massive star explosions in the galaxy, propagate through the galaxy.

July 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new theory by scientists says that our Milky Way galaxy survived intense heat generated by the "ignition" of the Universe about half-a-billion years after the Big Bang, because it was already immersed in a large clump of dark matter that trapped gases inside it. Tiny galaxies, inside small clumps of dark matter, were blasted away by the heat that reached approximate temperatures of between 20,000 and 100,000 degrees centigrade, according to the scientists, including experts at Japan's University of Tsukuba.

June 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A group of students have developed a portable device to detect the weapons of suicide bombers. Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the weapons of suicide bombers, are a major cause of soldier casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.

June 22nd, 2009 Work begins on world's deepest underground labSIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Far below the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews are building the world's deepest underground science lab at a depth equivalent to more than six Empire State buildings — a place uniquely suited to scientists' quest for mysterious particles known as dark matter.

April 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Researchers may be able to find extraterrestrial life even before it leaves its home planet -- by looking for left or right-handed light. The technique they have developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for detecting life elsewhere in the universe will not spot aliens directly.

March 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A group of scientists have discovered a new way to sensitively detect explosives based on the physical properties of their vapors. "Certain classes of explosives have unique thermal characteristics that help to identify explosive vapors in presence of other vapors," said Thomas Thundat, a researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Tennessee, who conducted the research with his colleagues at ORNL and the Technical University of Denmark.

March 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a strong new line of evidence that halos of dark matter are embedded around small galaxies. Looking into the turbulent center of the nearby Perseus galaxy cluster, Hubble discovered a large population of small galaxies that have remained intact while larger galaxies around them are being ripped apart by the gravitational tug of other galaxies.