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A Dark Matter Detector Based on a Wind Chime Seems Just Weird Enough to Work
Dark matter physicists may have one of the most frustrating jobs in science. Their work deals with something that must, by almost all models of the universe, exist. But we’ve never found any direct evidence for dark matter. Where other scientists can capture their subjects in a lab and perform experiments on it, scholars of…
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If Tiny Dark Matter Particle Exists, This Experiment Is Now Ready To Find It
Scientists are turning the tuning knob on an experiment that’s essentially a radio receiver inside of a magnet. It’s been around for years, but now it might finally be sensitive enough to hear a whole new kind of particle – one that could explain the mystery of the universe’s dark matter.