11/07/17 Something borrowed SLAC engineer Knut Skarpaas designs some of physics’ most challenging machines, finding inspiration in unexpected places.
11/06/17 An international celebration of dark matter Around the world, scientists and non-scientists alike celebrated the first international Dark Matter Day.
10/31/17 How is the Force like dark matter? For Dark Matter Day, scientist and Star Wars fan Dan McKinsey talks dark matter and the Force.
10/05/17 A radio for dark matter Instead of searching for dark matter particles, a new device will search for dark matter waves.
09/15/17 SENSEI searches for light dark matter Technology proposed 30 years ago to search for dark matter is finally seeing the light.
08/22/17 Expanding the search for dark matter At a recent meeting, scientists shared ideas for searching for dark matter on the (relative) cheap.
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.
08/08/17 A new search for dark matter 6800 feet underground Prototype tests of the future SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment are in full swing.
07/18/17 Shaking the dark matter paradigm A theory about gravity challenges our understanding of the universe.
06/20/17 A speed trap for dark matter, revisited A NASA rocket experiment could use the Doppler effect to look for signs of dark matter in mysterious X-ray emissions from space.
05/26/17 First results from search for a dark light The Heavy Photon Search at Jefferson Lab is looking for a hypothetical particle from a hidden “dark sector.”
05/02/17 Mystery glow of Milky Way likely not dark matter According to the Fermi LAT collaboration, the galaxy’s excessive gamma-ray glow likely comes from pulsars, the remains of collapsed ancient stars.
04/04/17 WIMPs in the dark matter wind We know which way the dark matter wind should blow. Now we just have to find it.
03/17/17 Q&A: Dark matter next door? Astrophysicists Eric Charles and Mattia Di Mauro discuss the surprising glow of our neighbor galaxy.
02/13/17 LZ dark matter detector on fast track Construction has officially launched for the LZ next-generation dark matter experiment.
