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Hunt for dark matter turns to ancient minerals

Kilometres beneath Earth’s surface, some minerals could bear the scars of collisions with dark matter.
  1. Anil Ananthaswamy
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Minerals deep inside Earth might contain telltale traces of collisions with dark matter — the elusive stuff that researchers think makes up most of the matter in the Universe. Experiments designed to search for these traces could one day complement or even compete with ongoing efforts to detect dark matter directly.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05660-6

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