UChicago scientists part of international XENON collaboration

There is five times more dark matter in the universe than “normal” matter—the atoms and molecules that make up the familiar world. Yet, it is still unknown what this dominant...Read more

Scientists heard their first pops last week in an experiment that searches for signs of dark matter in the form of tiny bubbles. They will need to analyze them further...Read more

Assoc. Prof. Juan Collar's dark matter experiment in Canadian nickel mine featured

Thanks to the presence of a natural “zoom lens” in space, University of Chicago scientists working with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a uniquely close-up look at the brightest...Read more

Michael Turner, Director of the Kavli Institue of Cosmological Physics, speaks about theories, scientists and the universe.Read more

Michael Turner's research focuses on the application of modern ideas in elementary particle theory to cosmology and astrophysics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a...Read more

Juan Collar’s work focuses on developing innovative methods for detecting Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) and other hypothetical subatomic particles that could account for dark matter. His research group has...Read more