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Best of Last Week – New way to detect dark matter, a magnetic wormhole and staring found to cause hallucinations

(Â鶹ÒùÔº)—It was another good week for physics as Ian Shoemaker, until recently with the University of Southern Denmark, proposed a new theory, suggesting that —he believes that scientists should be looking for dark radiation signals that theoretically result from dark matter collisions. Also, another trio created —a three-layered sphere that makes it appears as if a magnetic field has suddenly disappeared and then reappeared somewhere else.

In other news, a team of researchers in Rome and Geneva found a way to create tiny —by shining an LED light on tiny pinwheel-shaped gears floating on a liquid surface. Also, an international team of researchers came up with . They believe it could lead to new kinds of optical, electrical and superconducting materials. And another team at Cornell University reported on their efforts to explore .

In unrelated news, a team of paleobotanists reported that they had identified what could be —Montsechia vidalii, a plant that once grew abundantly in the Pyrenees and in the Iberian Range. Also, another team working at the Schoeneck-Kilianstaedten dig site in Germany reported that they had found .

In the interesting developments file, a team of researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston reported that they had developed a drug—a regenerative peptide—that . And there were reports, of course, of the —the hacker group made good on its promise to release data stolen from the site that specializes in providing a way for people to cheat on their partners.

And finally, if you have ever found things getting weird when gazing into the eyes of a loved one for very long, you might have a lot of company, as a team of researchers has found that Apparently, it happens to most people.