{"id":244094,"date":"2026-09-16T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/a-strange-signal-keeps-turning-up-in-earths-magnetic-field-and-no-one-knows-what-it-is-yet"},"modified":"2026-09-16T01:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T06:06:00","slug":"a-strange-signal-keeps-turning-up-in-earths-magnetic-field-and-no-one-knows-what-it-is-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/a-strange-signal-keeps-turning-up-in-earths-magnetic-field-and-no-one-knows-what-it-is-yet","title":{"rendered":"A Strange Signal Keeps Turning Up in Earth\u2019s Magnetic Field \u2014 And No One Knows What It Is Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-strange-signal-keeps-turning-up-in-earths-magnetic-field-and-no-one-knows-what-it-is-yet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have conducted a worldwide hunt for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/dark-matter\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">dark matter<\/a>. Literally \u2013 they turned Earth itself into a giant detector.<\/p>\n<p>Weirder still, the experiment picked up dozens of candidate signals that fit predictions for certain types of hypothetical particles that could make up dark matter.<\/p>\n<p>Those signals still need verification, and there\u2019s plenty of other things that they could be before they\u2019re dark matter particles. But it\u2019s a clever experiment with some tantalizing new clues to one of the most mind-bending cosmological puzzles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have conducted a worldwide hunt for dark matter. Literally \u2013 they turned Earth itself into a giant detector. Weirder still, the experiment picked up dozens of candidate signals that fit predictions for certain types of hypothetical particles that could make up dark matter. Those signals still need verification, and there\u2019s plenty of other things [\u2026]<\/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-244094","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\/244094","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=244094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}