Dark Matter Hunters Are Looking Inside Rocks for New Clues
Dark Matter Hunters Are Looking Inside Rocks for New Clues
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
January 16, 201910m 30s
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Show Notes
In nearly two dozen underground laboratories scattered all over the earth, using vats of liquid or blocks of metal and semiconductors, scientists are looking for evidence of dark matter. Their experiments are getting more complicated, and the search is getting more precise, yet aside from a much-contested signal coming from a lab in Italy, nobody has found direct evidence of the mysterious material that is thought to make up 84 percent of the matter in the universe.
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