centre News

The Centre is proud to celebrate a remarkable achievement by four Centre members - Director Elisabetta Barberio and CI Alan Duffy, have been elected Fellows of The Royal Society of Victoria (RSV), and CIs Nicole Bell and Celine Boehm have been named Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science.

Theoretical physicist Ray Volkas realised early in his career that the mystery of dark matter was central to our understanding of the universe.

Physicists from the Dark Matter Centre travelled to Stawell on Easter Saturday to attend the Stawell Easter Extravaganza.

In a career that has crossed multiple national and international borders, Giorgio Busoni has reaped the professional and personal benefits of his career in physics.

Physicists Zuzana Slavkovska and Theresa Fruth lead a tour of the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL).

Federico Scutti talks to Rebekah Lowe from ABC Wimmera’s Mornings program about new research measuring the cosmic radiation reaching the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory.

Australia’s bid to detect elusive dark matter has taken a major step forward, with new research confirming that cosmic radiation levels deep inside the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) are low enough to support the world-class experiment that will commence later this year.

The Centre’s 2025 Annual Report is now live. Read about the Centre’s significant achievements in 2025, our research and other Centre activities and get to know some of our Centre members.

Dark matter scientists from across the world travelled to Stawell to meet with the local community, education, business and government representatives and discuss current and future research.

Global dark matter experts will converge on Stawell and provide the region with an opportunity to talk to them about the ground-breaking research happening and what it means for the area.

To celebrate the United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Centre Director Elisabetta Barberio spoke with Raf Epstein on ABC Melbourne.

In August, the National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip travelled to remote and regional areas across Australia to share the love of science.

We have enjoyed a year of outreach, exploration and discovery at the Dark Matter Centre in 2025. Thank you to everyone involved in our Centre’s many research, education and outreach activities.

In August, the National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip travelled to remote and regional areas across Australia to share the love of science.

There’s more to the universe than meets the eye. Dark matter, the invisible substance making up most of the universe’s mass, is all around us — but what it is remains one of science’s biggest mysteries.

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.