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EPISODE · Aug 7, 2026 · 15 MIN

Victoria's first dark matter detector fires up

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

In an MRI machine at Swinburne University in Melbourne's inner east, a unique dark matter detector has started looking for signs of the mysterious material that makes up 85% of matter in the Universe. So far, all physicists know about dark matter is it has mass, and it doesn't interact with light (hence being dark). So how do they look for something they know almost nothing about?

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