* Astronomy

New dark matter experiments prepare to hunt the unknown

This month, three new experiments take significant steps in the hunt for dark matter, the elusive substance that appears to make up more than a quarter of the universe, but interacts very rarely with the matter that makes up our world. The experiments - the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment, the LZ Dark Matter Experiment, and the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search at the underground science laboratory known as SNOLAB - learned in July that each would receive much-needed funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. National Science Foundation.
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