Prototype sensor with scintillating fibre inserted partially into an artificial vein. (Courtesy: Josh Knowland) Cancerous cells have a higher metabolic activity than normal healthy cells, and ...

I don’t know about you, but this thing doesn’t seem like a scintillating bolometer to me. At all. Eduardo Abancens—a University of Zaragoza’s physicist—says it’s a dark matter detector. One that looks ...