Professor Nicole Bell

Theoretical Physicist, School of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

Sciences & Technology

Dark matter might be ‘light’

We don’t know the mass of dark matter particles, so researchers are developing new techniques to look for new, lighter types

Sciences & Technology

Using neutron stars to detect dark matter

The search for dark matter may need a detector larger than we can build on Earth, but it could be that a neutron star can do the job

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