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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.

In the lead up to the National Quantum & Dark Matter Particle Physics orgsniser Ben McAllister spoke to David Astle on ABC Melbourne Evenings.

A group of scientists from across Australia will converge on Brisbane on Sunday, 4 August to begin the National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip.

One of Australia’s top dark matter scientist sand leader of efforts to find dark matter in regional Victoria will speak at The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute on Wednesday, 7 August.

The National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip will visit regional and remote communities across Australia’s north this August.

Three schools in the Riverina region are the first in New South Wales to participate in an innovative program introducing students to dark matter.

Three schools in the Riverina region are the first in New South Wales to participate in an innovative program introducing students to dark matter.

Scientists may be one step closer to unlocking one of the great mysteries of the universe after calculating that neutron stars might hold a key to helping us understand elusive dark matter.

Scientists will mark a major milestone in the search for dark matter when they place the first major scientific equipment 1km underground in the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL).

A team of international experts will descend on Sydney today to help chart a new direction for dark matter research.

The only deep-underground physics laboratory in the Southern Hemisphere is getting a very cool new toy—a fridge that cools things to temperatures 300 times colder than outer space.

Scientists have received the first transmissions from a muon detector placed 1km underground in the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory.

Astronomers and dark matter scientists will hold a spooktacular event to celebrate Dark Matter Day on Tuesday, October 31

Rural and remote students will come face-to-face with Australian researchers at the forefront of scientific exploration when the National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip arrives in Queensland for National Science Week 2023.

The National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip will set off to visit Australian schools and communities between 6 and 26 August.

Australian dark matter researchers will boost their innovative thinking with a pilot program at IdeaSquare, CERN in Switzerland.

SUPL Ltd has appointed Kim Mintern-Lane as Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) Facility and Laboratory Manager.

University of Melbourne and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics Professor Nicole Bell has been appointed President of the Australian Institute of Physics (AIP).

The ghostly substance of dark matter will be brought to light on Dark Matter Day this Halloween.

Located one kilometre underground in the Stawell Gold Mine, the first dark matter laboratory in the Southern Hemisphere is preparing to join the global quest to understand the nature of dark matter and unlock the secrets of our universe.

The National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip has set off on its journey to visit 40 cities and towns across Australia over the next 19 days.

Scientists will travel 7,000 kilometres over 19 days and visit 40 cities and towns across Australia on the National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip.

The ORGAN Experiment—Australia’s first major contribution to dark matter detection—is now fully online and searching for dark matter, bringing us a step closer to solving one of the biggest mysteries of the Universe.

Scientists from France and Australia will collaborate on a new multinational project using xenon to search for dark matter particles.

One of Australia’s top quantum technologies and dark matter scientists will deliver a talk at the University of Melbourne