Wednesday, 23 September 2015

Can dark matter cause cancer?



Image Credits: Agnis Schmidt-May

Tl;dr: Yes. But it�s exceedingly unlikely.
Yesterday, a new paper appeared on the arxiv, provocatively titled �Dark matter as a cancer hazard.� It is a comment on an earlier paper by Freese and Savage, which I previously wrote about here.
Freese and Savage in their 2012 paper estimated the interaction rate of dark matter with the human body for weakly


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