For five days around a hundred physicists from some 30 institutions from around the world have been meeting in La Palma to talk about the results of the AMS instrument, which is on the International Space Station. Among these are the first possible detections of primordial antimatter. The Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting, who was at the conference, was enshrined yesterday in the Pathway of the Stars of Science in Santa Cruz de La Palma.

The Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting presided over the inaugural talk at the conference at which, during this week, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) collaboration will meet this week. The AMS is an instrument installed on the International Space Station dedicated to the study of cosmic rays, dark matter, and the search for traces of antimatter in the very early Universe.

Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias produce a new method to make a precise analysis of the speed of the density waves which propagate in spiral galxies

Santa Cruz de La Palma will host a debate on the results obtained by this high-energy instrumentin recent years and will add a fourth star in the Science Stars Walk (Paseo de las Estrellas de la Ciencia) in honour of Physics Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting.

This FECYT-funded project of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has produced the largest panoramic view of our galaxy without using professional telescopes.

An international team, including researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL), participated in the discovery of a star at a distance of nine billion lightyears from Earth.