New detector design has potential to expand search for dark matter
July 01, 2026
July 01, 2026
HOUSTON, Texas, July 1 -- Rice University posted the following news release:
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New detector design has potential to expand search for dark matter
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Dark matter accounts for 85% of the matter in the universe, but scientists still do not know what it is made of. A recent study by Rice University researchers proposes a detector design that could help search for axions, hypothetical particles that many physicists think could make up dark matter . . .
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New detector design has potential to expand search for dark matter
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Dark matter accounts for 85% of the matter in the universe, but scientists still do not know what it is made of. A recent study by Rice University researchers proposes a detector design that could help search for axions, hypothetical particles that many physicists think could make up dark matter . . .