{"id":102582,"date":"2020-02-20T13:05:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T21:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/top-dark-matter-candidate-loses-ground-to-tiniest-competitor"},"modified":"2020-02-20T13:05:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T21:05:53","slug":"top-dark-matter-candidate-loses-ground-to-tiniest-competitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/top-dark-matter-candidate-loses-ground-to-tiniest-competitor","title":{"rendered":"Top Dark Matter Candidate Loses Ground to Tiniest Competitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/top-dark-matter-candidate-loses-ground-to-tiniest-competitor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have long searched for hypothesized dark matter particles called WIMPs. Now, focus may be shifting to the axion \u2014 an ultra-lightweight particle whose existence would solve two mysteries at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have long searched for hypothesized dark matter particles called WIMPs. Now, focus may be shifting to the axion \u2014 an ultra-lightweight particle whose existence would solve two mysteries at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}