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EPISODE · Jul 31, 2026 · 12 MIN

Descend two kilometres underground to the cleanest lab on Earth

from The Science Show - Separate stories podcast · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

But would you want to stay there for 20 years off and on, as you discover — well, nothing! At least not dark matter accounting for 80 per cent of matter in the Universe. We join Canadian science reporter Dan Falk at a deep mine where finely tuned instruments try to catch particles zooming from space through the earth to perhaps one day reveal the missing mass of the Universe. Come to SNOLAB!

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