{"id":181301,"date":"2024-01-24T14:23:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T20:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/china-opens-huge-underground-dark-matter-lab"},"modified":"2024-01-24T14:23:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T20:23:35","slug":"china-opens-huge-underground-dark-matter-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/china-opens-huge-underground-dark-matter-lab","title":{"rendered":"China Opens Huge Underground Dark Matter Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-opens-huge-underground-dark-matter-lab2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese scientists have opened the deepest and largest underground lab in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The newly expanded facility, located around 7,800 feet below the Jinping Mountains, will allow scientists to study dark matter, the mysterious substance that\u2019s believed to account for more than 80 percent of the mass in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>While scientists believe it\u2019s the \u201cglue\u201d that holds the structures of the universe together, we have yet to directly observe it, since it\u2019s thought to be unable to interact with other matter or reflect or absorb light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese scientists have opened the deepest and largest underground lab in the world. The newly expanded facility, located around 7,800 feet below the Jinping Mountains, will allow scientists to study dark matter, the mysterious substance that\u2019s believed to account for more than 80 percent of the mass in the universe. While scientists believe it\u2019s the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181301","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}