30-11-2006, 09:27 PM
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admirer of the sky
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Germany
Posts: 429
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Searching for Dark Matter Particles Here on Earth
A powerful detector, deep underground in a mineshaft in Minnesota might be able to get to the bottom of the mystery. The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search II project will attempt to detect Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (aka WIMPS).
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/2006/pr-cdms-112906.html
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