{"id":228480,"date":"2026-01-07T02:25:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/advanced-quantum-detectors-are-reinventing-the-search-for-dark-matter"},"modified":"2026-01-07T02:25:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:25:57","slug":"advanced-quantum-detectors-are-reinventing-the-search-for-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/advanced-quantum-detectors-are-reinventing-the-search-for-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"Advanced quantum detectors are reinventing the search for dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/advanced-quantum-detectors-are-reinventing-the-search-for-dark-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to understanding the universe, what we know is only a sliver of the whole picture.<\/p>\n<p>Dark matter and dark energy make up about 95% of the universe, leaving only 5% \u201cordinary matter,\u201d or what we can see. Dr. Rupak Mahapatra, an experimental particle physicist at Texas A&amp;M University, designs highly advanced <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-07-dark-coldest-quantum-detectors-world.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">semiconductor detectors<\/a> with cryogenic quantum sensors, powering experiments worldwide and pushing the boundaries to explore this most profound mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Mahapatra likens our understanding of the universe\u2014or lack thereof\u2014to an old parable: \u201cIt\u2019s like trying to describe an elephant by only touching its tail. We sense something massive and complex, but we\u2019re only grasping a tiny part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to understanding the universe, what we know is only a sliver of the whole picture. Dark matter and dark energy make up about 95% of the universe, leaving only 5% \u201cordinary matter,\u201d or what we can see. Dr. Rupak Mahapatra, an experimental particle physicist at Texas A&amp;M University, designs highly advanced semiconductor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228480","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=228480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}