Nobel prize winner Samuel Ting (pictured) likes to keep people guessing. Nowhere was this more true than at his press conference this morning at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting in Boston. The AAAS had suggested that Ting would be ready to present the first dark matter results from his brainchild, the $1.5 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), basically a giant magnet and antimatter detector fixed to the outside of the International Space Station. Ting was prefaced by a line-up of physicist colleagues who described themselves as “very excited”. But Ting ended up only disappointing them and around 100 reporters who had gathered for the press conference. Ting said he wasn’t ready to make an announcement yet. “In 2-3 weeks, we should be ready,” he said.
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