Dark Matter
January 10, 2018
Scientific collaboration including UChicago and labs releases three years of data
August 3, 2017
Result supports view that dark matter, dark energy make up most of cosmos
May 18, 2017
UChicago scientists part of international XENON collaboration
November 11, 2015
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
May 7, 2013
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
Source: Discovery Channel Canada
September 21, 2012
Assoc. Prof. Juan Collar's dark matter experiment in Canadian nickel mine featured
By Steve Koppes and Ray Villard
March 8, 2012
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
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February 10, 2012
Michael Turner, Director of the Kavli Institue of Cosmological Physics, speaks about theories, scientists and the universe.Read more
Bruce & Diana Rauner Distinguished Service Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics the Enrico Fermi Institute and the College, Director, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Director, Physics Frontier Center at KICP
Turner helped establish the interdisciplinary field that combines together cosmology and elementary particle physics to understand the origin and evolution of the Universe. His research focuses on the earliest moments...Read more
Professor in Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute and the College
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