{"id":236546,"date":"2026-05-05T15:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/300-year-old-experiment-could-become-worlds-best-dark-matter-detector"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:07:16","slug":"300-year-old-experiment-could-become-worlds-best-dark-matter-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/300-year-old-experiment-could-become-worlds-best-dark-matter-detector","title":{"rendered":"300-year-old Experiment Could Become World\u2019s Best Dark Matter Detector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/300-year-old-experiment-could-become-worlds-best-dark-matter-detector.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An update to an experiment run by Henry Cavendish in 1773 could be a cheaper and faster way to spot a potential dark matter particle \u2013 and may be 10,000 times more sensitive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update to an experiment run by Henry Cavendish in 1773 could be a cheaper and faster way to spot a potential dark matter particle \u2013 and may be 10,000 times more sensitive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236546","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\/236546","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}