{"id":197944,"date":"2024-10-19T05:53:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T10:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/researchers-at-mit-recently-published-the-first-results-of-an-experiment-aimed-at-searching-for-axion-dark-matter-by-probing-the-axion-induced-birefringence-of-electromagnetic-waves"},"modified":"2024-10-19T05:53:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T10:53:43","slug":"researchers-at-mit-recently-published-the-first-results-of-an-experiment-aimed-at-searching-for-axion-dark-matter-by-probing-the-axion-induced-birefringence-of-electromagnetic-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/researchers-at-mit-recently-published-the-first-results-of-an-experiment-aimed-at-searching-for-axion-dark-matter-by-probing-the-axion-induced-birefringence-of-electromagnetic-waves","title":{"rendered":"Researchers at MIT recently published the first results of an experiment aimed at searching for axion dark matter by probing the axion-induced birefringence of electromagnetic waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-at-mit-recently-published-the-first-results-of-an-experiment-aimed-at-searching-for-axion-dark-matter-by-probing-the-axion-induced-birefringence-of-electromagnetic-waves2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While these findings, published in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, did not lead to the observation of signals associated with these hypothetical dark matter particles, they established a new technique to search for axions using a tunable optical cavity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While these findings, published in Physical Review Letters, did not lead to the observation of signals associated with these hypothetical dark matter particles, they established a new technique to search for axions using a tunable optical cavity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197944","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\/197944","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}