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Physicists hunt dark matter a mile underground in South Dakota

Original: 🌌 WATCH: About 85% of all matter across the # universe remains undetected by standard scientific instruments. Operating

Roughly 85% of the matter in the universe has never been directly detected, as it does not interact with standard scientific instruments. UCLA astrophysicist Alvine Kamaha and the LUX-ZEPLIN collaboration are working to change that, operating a detector nearly 1.6 kilometres underground in South Dakota to catch rare particle interactions from dark matter.

Why now: Dark matter detectors keep producing striking updates as scientists edge closer to observing the universe's missing matter directly.

LUX-ZEPLINAlvine KamahaUCLASouth Dakota

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• 🌌 WATCH: About 85% of all matter across the # universe remains undetected by standard scientific instruments. Operating nearly a mile (1.6 km) underground in # SouthDakota , # UCLA astrophysicist Alvine Kamaha and the LUX-ZEPLIN collaboration track rare particle interactions… · tksst@fediscience.org · 9

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