Members who have made exceptional contributions to the Centre in the areas of Outreach and Impact, Collaboration and Centre Values, and Mentorship were recognised as the 2025 Annual Workshop in November.
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Happy Dark Matter Day! What better way to celebrate than hearing Dr Karl Kruszelnicki talk with Kim Mintern-Lane about the potential of dark matter research to change our lives.
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To celebrate Dark Matter Day on Friday, October 31, we are excited to be travelling around the world, with live links to two fascinating underground labs that are part of the search for the elusive dark matter: the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory and the Boulby Underground Laboratory.
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Dark Matter Centre Director Professor Elisabetta Barberio has been awarded the Italian Bilateral Scientific Cooperation Award by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
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The SABRE South dark matter experiment has reached an exciting milestone with the arrival of a special glovebox in the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory.
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Imagine the advantage to the mining industry of being able to ‘see’ through rock without having to excavate.
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The National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip will complete its lap of Australia with an event in Sydney on Saturday.
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Excavation of the cavern where Hyper-Kamiokande will be built has been completed and the next phase of the construction has begun.
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Students spoke to Channel 7 about why they enjoyed the visit from dark matter and quantum scientists as part of the annual National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip yesterday.
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National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip organiser and road tripper Ben McAllister appeared on Channel 9’s Weekend Today show.
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The National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip will take off from Karratha, WA, on Monday, 4 August, as it completes its lap of Australia.
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The National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip is back in 2025 to complete its lap across the length and breadth of Australia.
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The Centre’s 2024 Annual Report is now live. Read about the Centre’s significant achievements in 2024, our research and other Centre activities and get to know some of our Centre members.
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A major challenge in the hunt for dark matter is that we don’t know the mass of the dark matter particles that we are trying to detect.
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The Centre’s 2023 Annual Report is now live. Read about the Centre’s significant achievements in 2023, our research and other Centre activities and get to know some of our Centre members.
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The Centre’s 2022 annual report is now live. Read about the Centre’s significant achievements in 2022, our research and other Centre activities and get to know some of our Centre members.
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CYGNUS is a grouping of international researchers who have an interest in directional detection using gaseous Time Projection Chambers (TPCs).
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WISPs are similar to WIMPs in some ways – e.g. they don’t interact very much at all with regular matter – but their key distinction is that they are very light in comparison.
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While SABRE looks to search for WIMPs in the traditional mass range – that is to say 10s to 100s of times as heavy as a proton – it is also possible that WIMPs are lighter, perhaps a fraction of the mass of a proton.
Read MoreWhile most experimental searches for WIMP dark matter have come up empty, there is one experiment, known as DAMA, that has claimed to have detected dark matter, and no one has yet been able to confirm or refute the claim.
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