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Inside the search for dark matter

12/17/24

Ali Sundermier

About 30 years ago an "ideas guy" and a team builder joined forces to search for the invisible bulk of existence.

Illustration of a cut-away view of the inside of the LZ detector

08/15/17

Dark matter hunt with LUX-ZEPLIN

A video from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory explains how the upcoming LZ experiment will search for the missing 85 percent of the matter in the universe.

Scientists in laser safety goggles work in a laser lab

08/10/17

Think FAST

The new Fermilab Accelerator Science and Technology facility at Fermilab looks to the future of accelerator science.

From left: SLAC's Tsuguo Aramak, Paul Brink and Mike Racine are performing final adjustments to the SuperCDMS SNOLAB engineering

08/08/17

A new search for dark matter 6800 feet underground

Prototype tests of the future SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment are in full swing.

133 dishes across the Great Karoo, 400,000 square kilometer

08/01/17

Tuning in for science

The sprawling Square Kilometer Array radio telescope hunts signals from one of the quietest places on earth.

Fourteen shovelers mark the start of LBNF construction.

07/31/17

An underground groundbreaking

A physics project kicks off construction a mile underground.

Photo of Angela Fava giving a talk at the Fermilab User's Meeting

07/26/17

Angela Fava: studying neutrinos around the globe

This experimental physicist has followed the ICARUS neutrino detector from Gran Sasso to Geneva to Chicago.

Stained glass image inspired by Fibonacci numbers

07/25/17

Turning plots into stained glass

Hubert van Hecke, a heavy-ion physicist, transforms particle physics plots into works of art.

Gravity vs. Dark Matter Reflection alternatives with dark matter on the left and no dark matter on the right.

07/18/17

Shaking the dark matter paradigm

A theory about gravity challenges our understanding of the universe.

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