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The News Of Tomorrow, Today
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Ryan F. Mandelbaum
A detector designed to hunt for dark matter has made a particle physics observation that will hopefully help physicists establish important truths about our universe. No, it didn’t spot dark matter, but the new result proves that these ultra-sensitive detectors are valuable to scientists for multiple reasons.
This past June, 227kg of a specially fabricated crystal buried in an Italian mountain seemed to glow just a little brighter. It wasn’t the first time, nor the last – every year, the signal seems to increase and decrease like clockwork as the Earth orbits the Sun.
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