Dark Matter
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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
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Sciences & Technology
Digging deep for dark matter
A dark matter laboratory at the bottom of a gold mine in rural Victoria could make one of the biggest scientific discoveries ever – proving the existence of dark matter
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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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Arts & Culture
Book extract
Exploring the most unknown universe
Around 95 per cent of the universe is still a mystery with unknown exotic particles and new forces awaiting discovery
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Sciences & Technology
Podcast
Catching sight of dark matter
This century, one the biggest challenges in fundamental physics will be to really understand the nature of dark matter, explains Professor of Physics Elisabetta Barberio
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Sciences & Technology
Under the Microscope
The dark matter detective
High energy physicist Professor Elisabetta Barberio is leading groundbreaking Australian research in the hunt for dark matter and it’s all happening deep underground
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Sciences & Technology
The next big scientific thing
As National Science Week celebrates scientific discovery in Australia, we ask what’s likely to be the ‘next big thing’ in some of the most exciting fields of science research?
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Sciences & Technology
Finding dark matter in the dark
In a laboratory 1000 metres below ground in a gold mine, Australian physicists are uniquely positioned to confirm the existence of dark matter
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Sciences & Technology
From gravitational waves to mobile phones: 50 years of physics
To celebrate 50 years of the July Lectures in Physics, we look back at four physics discoveries that have changed the world