The search for mysterious dark matter underdogs steps up
Hypothetical subatomic particles called axions get their chance to shine
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EVERY AXION HAS ITS DAY Physicist Gray Rybka of the University of Washington in Seattle and colleagues have created a detector sensitive enough to potentially find hypothetical dark matter particles called axions.
Mark Stone/University of Washington