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Researchers dig deep underground in hopes of finally observing dark matter

  • Written by Hugh Lippincott, Associate Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Researchers dig deep underground in hopes of finally observing dark matterThe inside of the LZ outer detector. The LZ is a super sensitive machine that may one day detect a dark matter particle. Matt Kapust, SURF, CC BY-SA

Physicists like me don’t fully understand what makes up about 83% of the matter of the universe — something we call “dark matter.” But with a tank full of xenon buried nearly a...

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