‘Waiting for a ghost’: the search for dark matter 1km under an Australian town

‘Waiting for a ghost’: the search for dark matter 1km under an Australian town

To study the stuff of the universe, you have to block it out, and that is exactly what a bold project in regional Victoria is trying to do

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Dark matter is flowing through you, right now.

This mysterious, invisible stuff makes up more than 80% of the universe, an elusive web of particles that pass freely through matter. To observe it, you have to get rid of all the interference.

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