<story><title>The possibilities for dark matter have shrunk</title><url>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dark-matter-wimps-lz</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>badcppdev</author><text>LZ Dark Matter experiment page: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lz.lbl.gov&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lz.lbl.gov&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Way better press release with lots of cool pictures: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;newscenter.lbl.gov&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;lz-experiment-sets-new-record-in-search-for-dark-matter&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;newscenter.lbl.gov&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;lz-experiment-sets-new...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The possibilities for dark matter have shrunk</title><url>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dark-matter-wimps-lz</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mppm</author><text>By the way, apart from the fact that dark matter predictions have been contradicted by increasingly sensitive experiments over and over and over, there is another inconvenient piece of observational evidence: An analysis of stellar velocities at the edge of the Milky Way, published last year [1] shows that they are &amp;quot;Keplerian&amp;quot;, i.e. following classical behavior without the influence of any purported dark matter. So either the Milky Way is anomalously dark matter deficient (how very convenient :), or maybe the discrepancy that dark matter was invented to explain will simply disappear when more accurate astronomical data including the fainter stars becomes available.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;the-milky-way-may-be-missing-a-trillion-suns-worth-of-mass&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;the-milky-way-may...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>