{"id":140361,"date":"2022-06-10T11:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T16:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-discovered-a-never-before-seen-particle-and-it-could-be-dark-matter"},"modified":"2022-06-10T11:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T16:02:18","slug":"scientists-discovered-a-never-before-seen-particle-and-it-could-be-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-discovered-a-never-before-seen-particle-and-it-could-be-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discovered a never-before-seen particle and it could be dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discovered-a-never-before-seen-particle-and-it-could-be-dark-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Extremely interested to hear some of your opinions on this. Published in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have discovered a new, mysterious particle. Of course, making new discoveries is exciting. But, perhaps the most exciting thing about this particle is that it could be a candidate for dark matter.<\/p>\n<p>Incredibly, the never-before-seen particle was discovered using an experiment small enough to fit on a kitchen counter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen my student showed me the data I thought she must be wrong,\u201d Boston College professor and lead researcher Kenneth Burch <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/magnetic-higgs-relative-discovered\">told <em>Live Science<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s not every day you find a new particle sitting on your tabletop.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extremely interested to hear some of your opinions on this. Published in the journal Nature. Scientists have discovered a new, mysterious particle. Of course, making new discoveries is exciting. But, perhaps the most exciting thing about this particle is that it could be a candidate for dark matter. Incredibly, the never-before-seen particle was discovered using [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140361","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\/140361","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}