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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.

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.

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.

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.

The SABRE South dark matter experiment has reached an exciting milestone with the arrival of a special glovebox in the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory.

Imagine the advantage to the mining industry of being able to ‘see’ through rock without having to excavate.

The National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip will complete its lap of Australia with an event in Sydney on Saturday.

Excavation of the cavern where Hyper-Kamiokande will be built has been completed and the next phase of the construction has begun.

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.

National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip organiser and road tripper Ben McAllister appeared on Channel 9’s Weekend Today show.

The National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip will take off from Karratha, WA, on Monday, 4 August, as it completes its lap of Australia.

The National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip is back in 2025 to complete its lap across the length and breadth of Australia.

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.

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.

Seven high-altitude balloons floated upwards from four cities across the United States in a collaboration between Australian and American scientists and students. 

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.

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.

Taiwanese artist Su Wenchi’s Sensing Dark Matter VR experience that merged art and physics was a resounding success.

A fridge that reaches temperatures 300 times cooler than outer space is due to be installed in the CELLAR facility in the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) by mid-2025.

Professor Nicole Bell is the outgoing President of the Australian Institute of Physics, and the leader of the Theory Program of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics.

Centre researcher Theresa Fruth is about to set sail on the trip of a lifetime to Antarctica as part of the Homeward Bound leadership program for women and non-binary people in STEMM.

Research Director at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN-LNF), Italy, Dr Catalina Curceanu is visiting the Dark Matter Centre as the recipient of the Lyle Fellowship. She discusses her visit, the collaboration it has fostered and why she loves Australia.

Researchers have travelled deep underground to examine how cosmic rays influence the phase noise and performance of timekeeping technology.

Centre members from across Australia and internationally attended the 2024 Annual Workshop in Wollongong.

The Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory has reveived a Victorian Government Enabling Tourism Grant to explore the feasibility of establishing a state-of-the-art Science Outreach Centre in Stawell.

Elisabetta Barberio, Paul Jackson and Lindsey Bignell will lead research projects that received ARC LIEF funding, announced on November 6.

To celebrate Dark Matter Day on October 31, our Centre researchers explain their role in the global search to undersand dark matter.

In the lead up to Dark Matter Day, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics (CDM) will join forces with CERN Laboratory in Geneva and European Southern Observatory (ESO) Supernova in Germany to give educators the tools to teach their students about dark matter.

Enjoy vieiwing the highlights of the 2024 National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip.. The photographs were captured by road trippers as they crossed the country, from Queensland, through the Northern Territory, via remote communities, and finishing in Western Australia.

This year’s science outreach event “Dark Matter in the Pub” was a joint event between the Centre’s Australian National University and The University of Sydney nodes. It took place on two consecutive evenings during National Science Week in August..