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The award is accompanied by $875,000 over five years in flexible funding to explore new frontiers in their fields of study

Physicists are closing in on the true nature of the neutrino — and might be closer to answering a fundamental question about our own existence

Jeremy D. Brown and Danielle Speller received Sloan Research Fellowships, which honor exceptional early-career science researchers

" " Large galaxy clusters contain both dark and normal matter. The immense gravity of all this material warps the space around the cluster, causing the light from objects located behind the cluster to be distorted and magnified. This phenomenon is called gravitational lensing. NASA/ESA Nearly a century after dark matter was first proposed to explain the motion of galaxy clusters, physicists still have no idea what its made of. Researchers around the world have built dozens of detectors in...

By Jim Shelton February 10, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this Former Yale postdoc Danielle Speller, who is now as assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University, documents the process of detector assembly. (Credit: Sid Cahn) The search for dark matter — the invisible glue that binds the cosmos and makes up most of the mass of galaxies — is a bit like looking for a needle in a near-infinite haystack. For one thing, sc...