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The Building Blocks of Dark Matter?

Scientists take a step closer towards discovering what makes up the most mysterious stuff in the universe

The title of the paper might not jump out at the average science fan—Search for Axionlike Particles Using a Variable-Baseline Photon-Regeneration Technique—but the big idea behind the research certainly should. Physicists at Fermilab have designed an experiment to look for the particles that may make up dark matter—the elusive material that may make up most of the matter in the universe.

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