Dark Matter News

Two days after we left AAAS conference, Samuel Ting, a really accomplished particle physicist who did whatever he could to send make US send a AMS (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer) to International Space Station to detect anti-Helium that is coming from space to Earth (it was the next to last space shuttle that US sent to the ISS), made announcement at AAAS saying that the AMS had found something. Many rumors say that the 'something' that the AMS found maybe Dark Matter. However, Ting says that they will be ready to announce the results after two or three weeks.

Link to the news:
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/02/dark-matter-search-from-the-space-station-continues-to-tease.html

The first time I learned about Samuel Ting was actually quite recent. Dr. Bellis was teaching me about the history of particle physics and the discovery of different quarks. Samuel Ting, who was working at MIT lab, and the SLAC lab at Stanford found a new quark called "Charm"on 1974 (this event is also called the November Revolution). According to Dr. Bellis, Ting, as a person with strong opinions, and the SLAC lab had conflict over to name the new meson cc (quark+anti-qark), so at the end the name of the meson became the combination of the symbol that each of them wants: J/ψ (J/Psi) meson. 
I googled Samuel Ting and found out that he is a American-Taiwanese who studied at the same high school that my father went to! However, His capability was unfortunately not recognized when he was in Taiwan (he flunked a class during college at Taiwan), so he continued his graduate education in the United States. 

Samuel Ting