By measuring some of these large bubbles, Norio Kaifu, the head of the project in Hawaii, hopes that Subaru will provide astronomers with a clearer idea of what, if it actually exists, the dark matter really is.

ECONOMIST: Japan��s new telescope

HITS, in which six sensors are placed inside the helmet of every player on the field, measuring the force and location of every blow he receives to the head.

NEWYORKER: Offensive Play

"If there is a supernova in our vicinity during the next couple of months, our chances of detecting and measuring the resulting gravitational waves are good, " said Professor Karsten Danzmann, head of the International Centre for Gravitational Physics, which is jointly run by the Max Planck Society and the University of Hanover.

BBC: Lab tuned to gravity's 'ripples'