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Missing mass

At the Soudan Underground Laboratory the earth filters out background noise such as cosmic rays so that scientists like SMU's Jodi Cooley can rely on a germanium crystals detector — cooled to nearly absolute zero — to try and glimpse dark matter.

 

See blog.smu.edu/research/2010/11/wfaa_minnesota_mine_could_y...

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Uploaded on November 30, 2010
Taken on November 4, 2010