At the heart of the matter: What is the single most important fact in science? It is a question of almost risible naivety and surely one that no serious scientist would attempt to answer. Yet in the early 1960s the American Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman put forward what he believed to be the answer. If the world was facing immediate obliteration, so that there was only time to scribble down one scientific fact for future generations, then according to Feynman that sentence should be: “All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another.” [Guardian]
Scientists claim to ’see dark matter’: Scientists may have caught a glimpse of the long sought “dark matter” that makes up 90 per cent of the mass of the universe. The discovery takes scientists a step further to determining the nature of dark matter, which has been an elusive puzzle since it was first discovered more than 70 years ago. [Telegraph]
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