Marcus Woo

Did Dark Matter Kill the Dinosaurs?

The dinosaurs never saw it coming. When a giant space rock smashed into the Yucatán Peninsula some 65 million years ago, their global reign ended in catastrophic violence. But that space rock—perhaps a comet several miles wide—might have had a stealthy accomplice: dark matter. Dark matter, of course, is the invisible stuff that makes up […]

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