Quotes in the Popular Press

• Strange observations of galaxies challenge ideas about dark matter, Science News, 7/5/2024
• Press release A million light years and still going appearing in
  • Space Weekly, 6/17/24
  • Bioengineer.org, 6/17/24
  • Before it's news, 6/17/24
  • News Wise, 6/17/24
  • MSN, 6/17/24
  • Universe Today, 6/17/24
  • The Brighter Side, 6/18/24
  • Knowridge, 6/20/24
  • Space Daily, 6/21/24
  • SciTech Daily, 6/21/24
  • earth.com, 6/28/24
• Rethinking space and time could let us do away with dark matter, New Scientist, 3/13/24
• Leap day: Why do we do this every four years? The Daily, 2/29/24
• Cosmic Controversy: The Ongoing Debate Between Dark Matter and Modified Gravity Theories, BNN, 2/26/24
• Dark matter vs modified gravity: which team are you on?, Physics World podcasts, 2/26/24
• Cosmic combat: delving into the battle between dark matter and modified gravity, Physics World, 2/6/24
• Modified Gravity May Make Planet Nine Disappear, Scientific American, 10/25/23
• The Milky Way May Be Missing a Trillion Suns Worth of Mass, Scientific American, 10/11/23
• She got famous on YouTube. Now it helps fund her research in quantum gravity, NPR, 9/23/23
• Wide Open Question: Binary-Star Observations Support MOND, CityLife, 8/17/23
• Studying local galaxies from an 'outside' perspective - and what it may mean for dark matter, BBC Sky at Night Magazine, 6/26/23
• The tradition of reading the stars: The myths behind astrology, The Daily, 3/21/23
• The hunt for dark matter: The universe's mysterious gravitational glue, New Scientist, 2/8/23
• The Enduring Mystery of the Dragonfly 44 Galaxy, Qunata magazine, 11/7/22; also in Wired, 12/4/22
• JWST's First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology, Scientific American, 9/14/22
• Do the James-Webb observations disprove dark matter theory? Roxy Mix, 7/23/22 (in French)
• Can Galaxies Form Without Dark Matter?, Forbes, 6/14/22
• New Insights from a Dark-Matter-Free Galaxy Revives Controversial Gravity Theory, The Daily Galaxy, 5/22/22
• Our paper on the Strong Equivalence Principle as tested by the External Field Effect was the most read paper in the Astrophysical Journal in December 2021 (over 32,500 downloads), 1/11/22.
• Dark Matter May Be Missing from This Newfound Galaxy, Scientific American, 12/22/21
• A Hint of Dark Matter Sends Physicists Into Hype Mode Yet Again, Quanta Magazine, 10/19/21
• Dark Matter Alternative Pases Big Test, Physics, 14, 143, 10/15/21
• Science News 2803: Dark Matter is Out, Nexus, May-June 2021
• 'Settled science' stranglehold on seismic forecasting, Bakersfield, 3/13/21
• New evidence AGAINST dark matter?!, Dr. Becky, 1/28/21
• Matiere noire: la fin du MOND?, France Culture, 1/26/21 (podcast in French)
• Unique prediction of modified gravity challenges dark matter, The Daily, 1/21/21
• Study that finds 'modified gravity' causes the unexplained motion of stars within galaxies, Daily Mail, 1/8/21
• Maybe 'dark matter' doesn't exist after all, new research suggests, NBC News, 1/6/21
• Could physicists have been so wrong? Futurism, 1/6/21
• New Data Supports the Modified Gravity Explanation for Dark Matter, Much to the Surprise of the Researchers, Universe Today, 12/28/20
• Evidence of 'Modified Gravity' In 150 Galaxies Strengthens Dark Matter Alternative, Slashdot, 12/22/20
• Defying the Laws of Gravity - Does a Smoking Gun Nix Dark Matter Theory?, The Daily Galaxy, 12/28/20
• La materia oscura - E se non esistesse? Business Insder Italia 12/18/20 (in Italian)
• What if Dark Matter Doesn't Exist? Unique Prediction of Modified Gravity Challenges Dark Matter Hypothesis, SciTechDaily, 12/17/20
• New Research Supports Modified Gravity Theory, SciNews, 12/17/20
• Modified Gravity Offers a Viable Explanation for Cosmological Dilemma, AZO quantum, 12/17/18
• Unique prediction of modified gravity challenges dark matter theory, Phys.Org, 12/16/20
• also in Science Daily | SpaceRef | Mirage
• New evidence for modified Newtonian mechanics, Chosun, 12/14/20 (in Korean)
• An Alternative to Dark Matter Passes Critical Test, Quanta magazine, 7/28/20
• The Trouble with Dark Matter - interview on the Consmic Controversy Podcast, 7/1/20
• Dark matter is still not found. And that's not going to happen, say these scientists, deVolkskrant, 10/25/19 (in Dutch)
• The hidden universe is not what we thought, Science et Vie, 08/28/19 (in French)
• Two Unusual Galaxies Shake Up the Dark Matter Debate, Again, Wired, 4/3/19
• Ghostly Galaxies Hint at Dark Matter Breakthrough, Scientific American, 1/25/19
• Does the Universe Still Need Einstein? New York Times, 11/21/18
• Is the search for dark energy a dead end? Cosmos Magazine, 9/19/18
• FAZ (German newspaper), 9/5/18
• Oddball Galaxy Puts Dark Matter Theory to the Test, Scientific American, 7/18/18
• Einstein's Greatest Theory Validated on a Galactic Scale, Scientific American, 6/22/18
• The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It, Quanta magazine, 6/12/18
• What is Dark Matter and Why Hasn't Anyone Found It Yet? Gizmodo, 6/7/18
• Our Galaxy was walloped Gizmodo, 4/30/18
• Dark matter is MIA in this strange galaxy Science News, 3/28/18
• A Galaxy Without (Much) Dark Matter Sky and Telescope, 3/28/18
• System of the World dialogue, 2/22/18
• Galaxies rotate in sync, raising dark matter questions Space.com, 2/3/18
• La materia oscura pierde por goleada ante el principio de la navaja de Occam ABC (Spain), 11/27/17
• SEARCH FOR DARK MATTER DEALT ANOTHER BLOW AS ANOTHER HIDING PLACE FOR ELUSIVE SUBSTANCE RULED OUT Newsweek, 11/9/17
• Dark-matter hunt fails to find the elusive particles Nature, 11/8/17
• What the Neutron Star Collision Means for Dark Matter Smithsonian, 10/31/17
• The Future is Dark LSA Magazine, Fall 2017
• We don't need dark matter to explain the universe Motherboard 10/4/17
• Shaking the dark matter paradigm Symmetry 7/18/17
• Has dogma derailed the scientific search for dark matter? Aeon 7/17
• The Superfluid Universe Aeon 7/17
• THINK Magazine 7/17
• How Dark Matter Lost its Shine 3/22/17 New Scientist
• Rules of attraction: Why it's time to rethink how gravity works 3/15/17 New Scientist
• Maybe Dark Matter Is All Just a Big Mistake 2/17 Nautilus
• The Physicist Who Denies that Dark Matter Exists 2/17 Nautilus
• The Guardian 12/31/16
• Physics World 10/7/16
• Forbes 9/23/16
• Il Manifesto (full page spread, in Italian)
• The Daily Galaxy 9/24/16
• NanoWerk 9/21/16
• Radial Acceleration Relation press release 9/21/16
• Shaking Up the Dark Universe, World Science Festival, 6/16
• TEDxCLE talk 11/15, also on youtube
• Dark Matter Deniers 7/15 (Discover magazine)
• Video of public talk for the Toledo Astronomical Association 3/15
• New Doubts about Dark Matter 12/14 (Forbes)
• It's crunch time for dark matter if WIMPs don't show 5/14 (New Scientist)
• The Missing Universe 4/14 (Astronomy magazine cover story) | also here
• From Quarks to Quasars 11/29/13
• National Geographic 8/29/13 Also here
• Yahoo News 8/29/13
• newKerala 8/29/13
• DNA India 8/29/13
• Z News (India) 8/29/13
• webindia 8/29/13
• Athiest nexus 8/28/13
• Science 2.0 8/28/13
• Science Newsline 8/28/13
• Science News 8/28/13
• Andromeda dwarfs revisted: a priori predictions confirmed - press release 8/28/13
• National Geographic 3/25/13 Also here
• Interview for German Public Radio 3/22/2013
• Incredible Story of attempted censorship 3/8/2013
• New Scientist 2/28/2013
• Time Science & Space 2/26/2013 | reply to Siegel | reply to ialsoagree
• Andromeda dwarfs' velocity dispersion predicted - press release 2/14/2013
• Andromeda dwarfs on physorg 2/14/2013
• Andromeda dwarfs on MessageToEagle 2/15/2013
• Andromeda dwarfs on redOrbit 2/15/2013
• Andromeda dwarfs press release 2/14/2013
• Physics World 10/1/2012
• Science et Vie 9/2012 (No. 60, p. 112. In French)
• Gas Rich Galaxies Confirm Prediction of Modified Gravity Theory press release 2/22/2011

  Viewpoint for PRL by Masters & Spekkens

  Original articles: Science & Vie (in French) | BBC | Science | Nature | motherboard | NZZ (in German)

  Other articles: io9 | redOrbit | PhysOrg | ScienceDaily | technologijos (in Lithuanian)

  The blogosphere reacts:

  User's Guide to the Universe | The Dayside | Cosmic Variance | Starts with a Bang | Weizman Wave | Particle Decelerator

  Trialogue with Rainer Plaga and Sean Carroll.

  Some remarks on cognitive dissonance

• Reliance on Indirect Evidence Fuels Dark Matter Doubts in Scientific American 12/30/2010
• An interesting thread provoked by the astronomy decadal report.
• See here for the full text of my quote solicited by Pavel Kroupa
• Bringing dark matter down to Earth and Dark matter could meet its nemesis on Earth in New Scientist 2/24/2010
• Matiere Noire in Ciel & Espace 2/2010
• Tweak Gravity: What If There Is No Dark Matter? in Scientific American 11/5/2009
• Mystery of the missing mini-galaxies in New Scientist 8/24/2009
• Phantom menace to dark matter theory in New Scientist 7/8/2009
• Study plunges standard Theory of Cosmology into Crisis in Physics.org 5/5/2009
• 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time (book by Michael Brooks) 8/8/2008
• A case of MOND over Dark Matter in Universe Today 4/8/2008
• Local Dwarfs in Science Daily 4/7/2008
• BBC report from the UK National Astronomy Meeting 4/5/2008
• RAS press release 4/4/2008
• Galaxy without dark matter in New Scientist 2/6/2008
• Radio chat on WCPN 9/10/2007
• Dark Matter is Dead in the BBC's Sky at Night 9/2007
• Seeing Through Dark Matter in Science 8/2007
• Article in Le Monde 5/2007 (in French)
• Battlefield Galactica in Sky & Telescope 4/2007
• A jump that would prove Newton wrong in Nature, 446, 357 (2007)
• Equinox challenge to Newton's law in New Scientist, 2597, 15 (2007)
• Meet me at 79°50' N, 56° W in Science News, 171 (13), 206 (2007)
• Experiment sets the ultimate test for Newton's laws PhysicsWeb, 3/2007
• Can Newton's 2nd Law be Violated on Earth? PhysOrg, 3/2007
• Could self-moving objects explain away dark matter? World Science, 3/2007
• MOND experiment cancels all accelerations, could it end dark matter? ITWire, 4/2007
• Bewährungsprobe für Newton Wissenschaft, 3/2007
• Newton's second law, Revisited
• Inaugural Letter from a Contrarian for Cosmic Controversy 1/2007
• Article in Ciel & Espcace 12/2006 (in French)
• Physics Today Search & Discovery 11/2006
• Balanced article in Physics World stemming from the ROE conference.
• Nice interview of Jim Peebles
• BBC Horizon programme
• Prof. Noah Brosch's newspaper article (in Hebrew)
• My philosphical tirade as published by futureframe (translated by Phillip Helbig)
• info.astro report on CMB result (in Spanish)
• InfoScience reports with and without pictures (in French)
• CMB report on PhysicsWeb