{"id":82720,"date":"2018-09-16T02:02:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T09:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/the-new-hunt-for-dark-matter"},"modified":"2018-09-16T02:02:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T09:02:39","slug":"the-new-hunt-for-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/the-new-hunt-for-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"The New Hunt for Dark Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_HF2qh5M3vs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the over two-decades-long search for dark matter, scientists so far have come up short. In recent years though, construction of new experiments and upgrades to already existing detectors are giving new hope that we\u2019re closer than ever to understanding dark matter.<\/p>\n<p>One of those new efforts is SABRE, an international collaboration that will house multiple detectors working in tandem in the southern and northern hemispheres: two at Italy\u2019s Gran Sasso National Laboratory, and another at an underground lab in an Australian gold mine.<\/p>\n<p>In episode two of The Most Unknown, Motherboard travels to Gran Sasso National Laboratory with physicist Davide D\u2019Angelo and geomicrobiologist Jennifer Macalady to get an early look at SABRE\u2019s latest phase of development.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about The Most Unknown here: <a href=\"https:\/\/vice.video\/2CQcMZw\">https:\/\/vice.video\/2CQcMZw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow MOTHERBOARD<br \/> Facebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/motherboardtv\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/motherboardtv<\/a><br \/> Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/motherboard\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/motherboard<\/a><br \/> Tumblr: <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboardtv.tumblr.com\/\">http:\/\/motherboardtv.tumblr.com\/<\/a><br \/> Instagram: <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/motherboardvice\">http:\/\/instagram.com\/motherboardvice<\/a><br \/> More videos from the VICE network: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fb.com\/vicevideo\">https:\/\/www.fb.com\/vicevideo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_HF2qh5M3vs\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_HF2qh5M3vs<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the over two-decades-long search for dark matter, scientists so far have come up short. In recent years though, construction of new experiments and upgrades to already existing detectors are giving new hope that we\u2019re closer than ever to understanding dark matter. One of those new efforts is SABRE, an international collaboration that will house [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82720","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}