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Ray of hope in dark-matter hunt

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Gamma-ray spike in Fermi telescope data hikes anticipation.

The murky hunt for dark matter has just got a little bit brighter. New gamma-ray results from the FERMI telescope fit with previous tantalizing hints of a detection of the mysterious stuff.

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  1. Cholis, I. et al., preprint at http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.3953 (2009).

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  1. Zeeya Merali
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Merali, Z. Ray of hope in dark-matter hunt. Nature (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2009.730

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