The Centre engages with the media to offer the general public and those interested in science insight into advances in knowledge about dark matter. It also aims to promote researchers and provide them with experience and skills in sharing their knowledge with the public via the media.
MEDIA CONTACT
Communications and Media Officer (University of Melbourne)
Email: fleur.morrison@unimelb.edu.au
Mobile: 0421 118 233
Latest Media Releases
The National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip will complete its lap of Australia with an event in Sydney on Saturday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Latest Media Coverage
In the lead up to International Women’s Day, read about CDM Director Elisabetta Barberio’s groundbreaking work in search of dark matter.
A fridge that is 300 times colder than outer space will make its home in the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory after it received Australian Research Council and university funding.
On Dark Matter Day 2023, CDM researcher Ben McAllister discussed dark matter and why it remains one of the great mysteries of the universe.
The Catalyst explored the extraordinary projects being undertaken around the world to find dark matter, including 1km underground in Stawell.
The ABC visited the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory to find out how researchers at the CDM are searching for dark matter 1km underground.
The Centre was lucky enough to have the opportunity to host the Veritasium team at its University of Melbourne laboratory, Swinburne University of Technology Wantirna Campus and the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory.