The Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Releases Its First Results

Ryan F. Mandelbaum, Gizmodo
Fri, 05/19/2017 - 1:55pm

Around eighty-five percent of the matter scientists have detected in the universe comes from something we can’t feel or see. It’s a seemingly enormous amount of mass whose gravity bends other stars’ light and makes galaxies spin strangely. And scientists really, really want to know what this so-called dark matter is.Read more...

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