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Letter: What's the matter with dark stuff?

Published 3 June 2015

From Martin Savage

New Scientist has developed an annoying habit of declaring confidently that “Dark matter makes up 80 per cent of the universe’s matter…” without qualification (for example, 2 May, p 11). I was under the impression that dark matter is a hypothesis in search of confirmation – or did I miss the part where it was discovered and explained?
Jomtien, Thailand

Issue no. 3024 published 6 June 2015

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