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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In the world of physics, it often takes something mind-bogglingly big to detect something tiny. This is true of the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment in Japan that has been designed to understand subatomic particles called neutrinos – the most abundant type of matter particle in nature.
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Seven high-altitude balloons floated upwards from four cities across the United States in a collaboration between Australian and American scientists and students.
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The SABRE South collaboration is preparing for the dark matter experiment to journey into its final destination in the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory in mid-2025.
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Researchers, students and science-lovers across the world now have access to the design of the globally significant SABRE South dark matter experiment in the lead up to its installation in the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory.
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A magazine article first piqued Leonie Einfalt’s interest in dark matter. As a secondary student in Austria, the article inspired her to write her final project on the mysterious substance.
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I am a Naarm/Melbourne-based photographic artist and educator currently working on a project that traverses photography, science, sci-fi and consciousness, with a focus on the search for dark matter at its core.
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Teachers, students and members of the public from around the world will get a sneak peek at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) in a livestream event.
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