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Scientists Hunt Dark Matter a Mile Underground in South Dakota

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

Roughly 85% of all matter in the universe is dark matter, invisible to standard scientific instruments. UCLA astrophysicist Alvine Kamaha and the LUX-ZEPLIN collaboration are searching for it using a detector operating nearly a mile (1.6 km) underground in South Dakota, where rock shielding blocks cosmic rays so rare particle interactions from dark matter can be tracked.

Why now: The experiment represents one of the most ambitious ongoing efforts to directly detect dark matter, a major unsolved mystery in physics.

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• 🌌 ICYMI: 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 · 3

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