{"id":77045,"date":"2018-03-20T18:23:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T01:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/new-material-capable-of-detecting-dark-matter-scientists-say"},"modified":"2018-03-20T18:23:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T01:23:52","slug":"new-material-capable-of-detecting-dark-matter-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/new-material-capable-of-detecting-dark-matter-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"New material capable of detecting dark matter, scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-material-capable-of-detecting-dark-matter-scientists-say.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>March 20 (UPI) \u2014 Scientists believe a new material, known as a scintillator, will expand the search for dark matter.<\/p>\n<p>New analysis suggests the scintillator material is sensitive to dark matter particles with less mass than a proton, which should allow scientists to look for dark matter among a previously unexplored mass range.<\/p>\n<p>Weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, describe dark matter particles with a mass greater than that of a proton. Scientists have tried to directly detect WIMPs using a variety of strategies, but with no success.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2018\/03\/20\/New-material-capable-of-detecting-dark-matter-scientists-say\/1491521572000\/\">https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2018\/03\/20\/New-material-cap...521572000\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 20 (UPI) \u2014 Scientists believe a new material, known as a scintillator, will expand the search for dark matter. New analysis suggests the scintillator material is sensitive to dark matter particles with less mass than a proton, which should allow scientists to look for dark matter among a previously unexplored mass range. Weakly interacting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77045","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\/77045","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}